Hi everyone! Happy World Book Day — and happy birthday to Shakespeare! If you are kind of a Shakespeare nerd like me, one day when the world is open again, I highly recommend visiting the new Shakespeare’s Globe in London. It made me sooooooo ridiculously happy. Sunny: It’s World Book Day! Hooray! Tsunami: Oh, I KNOW. Sunny: I am going . . .
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Hi wonderful everyone! The Wings of Fire dragons don’t have the fancy technology that our world does, and for the most part I think they’re doing OK without it — but one thing I know Starflight would LOVE, if he could get his talons on them, is audiobooks. (Instead he has Fatespeaker, who is pretty happy reading scrolls to him . . .
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Hello lovelies! To keep my mind off the news, I’ve been thinking about what the Wings of Fire dragons would do if this global pandemic/quarantine situation happened to them. I mean, Clay is clearly a comfort baker, don’t you think? He would 100% show up outside your house to leave baskets of scones and muffins on your doorstep…unless he accidentally . . .
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Hello loveliest, most wonderful readers, I know, it really shouldn’t take a global pandemic for me to return to my Neglected Blog (that’s the official title now), but here I am — in my house (all the time! forever!), and thinking about all of you and how you’re doing and what a few dragons might do to help. I’m supposed . . .
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Hello lovelies! We are only two weeks away from the release of Book Twelve! Would you . . . maybe like a copy signed by me? Or . . . any other Wings of Fire books signed by me? 🙂 Because this holiday season, you can get them, thanks to the marvelous and lovely independent bookstore Belmont Books! All you . . .
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Hello loveliest of readers! We have a really important election coming up in less than a month (less than a month! November 6th!) and oodles of voter registration deadlines are RIGHT NOW, like, today! Are you registered to vote? If you’re not old enough, are your parents registered to vote? How about your older brothers and sisters? Is everyone you . . .
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Hello lovely wonderful readers! We are only THREE WEEKS AWAY from the release of Book Eleven! I am so excited and so in love with this cover! (If the number of words in these blogs was proportional to how much I adore Joy Ang, it would be ALL JOY ALL THE TIME. She is beyond amazing! Look how beautiful Blue . . .
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We’re celebrating Women’s History month with 31 days of posts focused on improving the climate for social and gender equality in the children’s and teens’ literature community. Join in the conversation on Facebook or Twitter #kidlitwomen (Image by Grace Lin) Hi everyone! Apologies in advance for the kind of long, sort of personal post—I’ve been thinking a lot about this! . . .
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Hello lovely everyone, Like many people, I am finding the news (and the world) a little overwhelming right now, so I thought I’d just stop by to recommend a bunch of books, many of them brand new. I find that reading gets me through all kinds of worries and stress, so I hope that sharing these will help do the same . . .
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Hello all my favorite readers! I cannot believe I have neglected this blog for so very long — I’m sorry! Apparently fall is not my most productive blogging time. ? But the good news is: Book Eleven is done and really coming to you this year! The cover is so so pretty and it even has a title now…I’ll see if . . .
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