It’s NaNoWriMo again! And since many of you have QUESTIONS, I decided to take an hour away from THESE REVISIONS I AM DOING to answer them.
aryanaazari asks: what is NaNoWriMo? Everyone talks about it and I don’t get it.
NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. It takes place every November. The challenge is to complete a [...]

So, it appears that it has been about a month since I last blogged. It also appears that this is somewhat of a pattern. But there is a reason, my friends. I always have reasons.
I haven’t blogged much is that I’ve been busy writing. That’s the whole explanation.* It turns out there’s only so much [...]

As many of you may know (and many more may not), my beloved agent, Daphne Unfeasible, lives in Denver. This is a fairly recent development. She was your standard, high-powered fancy New York agent—and then she met the dashing Rexroth Implausible and decided to merge their empires. She now runs Unfeasible Enterprises from her mountain [...]

While I’m doing my blogging residence at insideadog until February 15th, I’ve decided to leave tiny recaps of what I’m writing over there on this blog . . . . just so it doesn’t fall to pieces in my absence. I will probably repeat the fact that I have temporarily moved every single day*, just [...]

Well, friends, it is done. We completed the Great Harrods Caper. The event was recorded on video, and edited together with questionable results. Daphne and I followed the list, after a fashion. I think we found the most expensive item in the store. We also found the oldest (the fish you will see on the [...]

I asked, and you answered.
Right now, Daphne is zipping up her suitcase in New York. Then, after spending a few hours attending to important agently business at Unfeasible Enterprises, she will board a fast jet and hurl herself across the Atlantic in my direction.
And then, the Great Harrods Caper begins.

Caper Central
I have probably mentioned that [...]

It’s been a rough few weeks here in YA land. It seems like everyone has been on crazy deadlines, or getting sick, or otherwise falling to pieces. I think I should bring you all up to speed.
The other day, I had lunch with Justine Larbalestier and Libba Bray. Libba has been working 25 hours a [...]