Many of you have recently written to inquire if I am, in fact, dead. Because during this, one of my favoritest times of year, I have been silent for almost three weeks! (Not really THAT silent. I was on Facebook for much of this, giving brief, meaningless, insane updates. Also giving away books. I like [...]

I was having one of those days today when I forget how to take my watch off. Does this happen to you ever? You’ve taken your watch off hundreds of times, and then you just . . . forget? You pull the latch and pull it and nothing happens and you start flailing and [...]

Here’s the problem with having a contest in which the only task is to finish the sentence, “MJ should send me Suite Scarlett because . . .” I read all of the entries. Three times. And there are a lot of them. And they are all really good. I learned that a lot of you [...]

While I am reading all these entries in the Suite Scarlett contest, you can maybe watch this video of me interviewing Libba Bray about her new book, The Sweet Far Thing. If you like that sort of thing.
YOU STILL HAVE LOTS OF TIME TO ENTER! YOU HAVE UNTIL MONDAY!
Also, because it’s important that I always [...]

Several of you have been asking about Bartlesville and the banning, requesting an update. You ask—and I answer!
It starts with a confession, which is this: I started to get a bit down about Bartlesville. I got many notes of support. (Many, many, many . . . and thank you to everyone who wrote one.) [...]

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 [...]