A Book Club, Marvelous Articles, Awesome Mugs, and Snuggly Things

Hi everyone! Have you ever wanted to be in a book club with me?  Well, here’s your chance!  I’m hosting a Newtonville Books Celebrity Bookclub (I know, that’s me! I’m the celebrity! isn’t that wild? Dancing with the Stars, here I come!) 😉 on Saturday, April 29, at 2pm and I would love for you to join me if you . . .

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Boskone Schedule and Hugs for Everyone

Hello all! The news kind of makes me want to go back into my cave right now, but instead I will actually be out and about a bit this month, and I wanted to let you all know about a couple of events in particular, which I hope you’ll come join me for! Boskone is New England’s longest-running science fiction . . .

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Book Nine Is Here! Happy New Year!

Hello lovely readers! I know, can you believe it?  A BLOG!  After all these months!  I just apparently abandoned the rest of 2016 — to be honest, I was finding the Internet/the news/reality a little stressful (like…everyone? I think?).  So I have been focused on deadlines and dragons (and my two little bears, who make even reality seem pretty wonderful) . . .

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A Seer, An Animus, and the Most Powerful Dragon in Pyrrhia Walk Into a Book . . .

Hi everyone!! It’s here, it’s here!  DARKSTALKER Day has arrived!  Shiny new crazy book alert!  Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!! Travel back in time, two thousand years into Pyrrhia’s history, to find out what really happened when an IceWing prince met a dazzling NightWing . . . when their dragonet hatched with more power than any dragon had ever had before . . . when . . .

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Back Home to Pyjamas and Bears (and a Very Stern-Looking Deadline)

Hello lovely readers! It’s been about a month since my last blog post, which, I’ve just noticed, seems to be about how long it takes for my guilt complex to kick in and make me do another blog.  Hmmm!  I’d say, “Oh, OK, maybe I’ll just plan to blog once a month, then,” but I’m afraid that would let the . . .

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Places To Go and Books To Read

Hi everyone! I’m about halfway through my book tour, so just dropping in for a quick hello to mention the events coming up in the next week! Guess where I am now? That’s right — Seattle!  My first visit here, and it’s such a cool city!  Tomorrow — Sunday, March 6! — I’m doing my one event in the Seattle . . .

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Announcing a Shiny NEW Extra Wings of Fire Book! Surprise!

Hello lovely readers! I have some news! Exciting news, I think—I hope you’ll think so! (This is the big announcement I referred to in the Wings of Fire forums chat!) But let’s start with the part you won’t be excited about: Book Nine is not coming out this summer. ACK! I know! Despair! But wait! HERE’S WHY. As some of . . .

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2016 Resolutions: Sleep More (Normally), Write More (Consistently), Snuggle More (with Bears!)

Hello lovely everyone! Happy New Year! 2016 is so exciting already!  Perhaps most exciting for me is the fact that Wings of Fire Book Six: Moon Rising is a finalist for a 2015 Cybils Award in the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category.  Check out the other finalists in the category, or go here for the full list of finalists — it’s pretty amazing! . . .

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Peril Is Upon Us! Everybody Run! (To Your Nearest Bookstore!) (In, Like, Two Weeks, I Mean, Not Right This Second) (But SOON!)

Hi everyone! GUESS WHAT?  Book Eight is almost here!  And by “almost” I mean even closer than we thought it would be — because it’s coming out a week early!  That’s right, you don’t have to wait all the way until January…the new release date is DECEMBER 29!!!  That’s only two weeks away!  YEEEP!  Oh goodness, I hope you all . . .

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