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Archive for October, 2007

THE WEE FREE MONKEYS

Monday, October 29th, 2007

What a week, my friends. I am sorry it took me so long to update. I have had not one, but TWO book deadlines, and my father had an operation. So I was trying to finish both Scarlett and Let It Snow while bouncing around between New York and Philadelphia. When it gets like this, [...]

I NEVER LIE

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Okay, guys. Seriously. You’d think that when J.K. Rowling was following me around a few weeks ago, eating my snacks . . . in all that time, why couldn’t she have told me something useful and interesting?
Like that Dumbledore is gay, for instance?
There’s something good and positive, something . . . oh, what’s the [...]

THE TRUTH ABOUT ALLIGATORS, VAMPIRES, AND TOOTHBRUSHES

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

I just got back from Disneyworld, my friends.
I was not there to ride on Space Mountain wearing Mickey ears. Oh no. I was there for a very legitimate reason: 13 Little Blue Envelopes is on the Florida Teens Read list, so I was asked to come down to the Florida Association for Media in Education [...]

CHAPTER SIX, IN WHICH I GET A MUSICAL TOOTHBRUSH

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I had lunch with my erstwhile agent, Daphne Unfeasible, today. It was a glorious summer-like day here in New York (thank you, global warming!). We sat at an outdoor café on Park Avenue behind a table full of priests.
I always feel kind of smugly content when I’m near a lot of priests, because I [...]

MAILBAG

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Friends! As promised, this post is all about answering YOUR questions. Your questions were quite numerous, and very good. In fact, they were so numerous and good that I could only answer some of them. This batch of answers includes questions about YOU, my general lifestyle, Suite Scarlett, and what would happen if my characters [...]