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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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Odds and Ends and a Boston Event!

Hello everyone! First, and most importantly, for anyone in the Boston area, I’ll be doing an event at the Watertown Free Library this coming Saturday, October 24, at 2pm!  This is almost certainly my last event for 2015 (I need to seriously hibernate to focus on writing!), which means it’s your last chance to hear a sneak peek of Book Eight: Escaping . . .

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Into the Wild Blue Yonder, i.e. Michigan / Wisconsin

Hi everyone! Just a quick post before I get on a plane today to remind you all that I’m going to be in MICHIGAN! on WEDNESDAY! doing a bunch of school visits and a thrilling BARNES AND NOBLE EVENT which I hope some of you Michigan FanWings can come to!  Wednesday, October 7th!  At 6pm!  At the Livonia Barnes & Noble, 17111 Haggerty . . .

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