BEA-amazing
It's been a week since I got back from BookExpo America – or BEA – and while a bit o' blogging is long overdue, it took me a week to...
How to start a novel ...
Over on my tumblr, a reader asks: "Do you start with characters or plot?" My answer: no. I start with something I call “the original...
BEA or BUST!
Going to BookExpo America next week? Me too! Simon and Schuster will have advance copies of THE SCORPION RULES at their booth through...
Leavetaking
Whelp, it's midnight on the first day of a five-month leave from my day job. I will miss thinking about physics every day, but the gift...
Look what came!
Yesterday I got a packet of advanced reading copies (or ARCs) of The Scorpion Rules. I love getting ARCs. It may in fact be my favorite...
The Scorpion Rules cover reveal
Behold! The cover for my forthcoming novel, The Scorpion Rules, out September 2015. It is sexy and subtle and strong and scary -- in...
First Pass Pages!
Look what came in the mail today: first pass pages! This is where they lay out the book, ready to be printed, trimmed, and bound, and...
BIG NEWS! A new book deal
I have been sitting on this news for so long that when it hatches it will have an elephant trunk and tail! But oh, it is worth it, one...
Speaking at INSPIRE
Those of you headed up to the Inspire Book Festival at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Tomorrow, keep an eye out for me. I'm reading...
Sorrow's Knot wins the Hughes!
Most excellent news! Sorrow's Knot just won the Monica Hughes Award for best fantasy or science fiction novel for young people. I'm...