Kirkus Best Books
Exciting news: *Sorrow's Knot* has made the Best Books of 2013 from the venerable *Kirkus Reviews*. *Kirkus* has a reputation for being...
The Common Swift
Consider in its turn the common swift. There is new evidence that over the dark dunes of the Sahara, a swift will stay aloft two hundred...
Quill and Quire book of the year.
Guys. *Quill & Quire* and me, we're in LUV. We're gonna get matching tattoos. But seriously -- the December issue came to my house the...
Sorrow's Knot Review Round Up (number 2)
I do love me my book bloggers. They -- together with a handful of friends -- are responsible for 80 or 90 percent of the books I read. Of...
Thank you, Ottawa!
I'm back from Ottawa, where I tried poutine at the National Poutine Festival, got to see the Library of Parliment, and participated at...
Niche
There is for each piece of the world a thing that is perfect in it. November was empty until the chrysanthemums bloomed. Across them,...
Stories
They say that after Nagasaki only the smokestacks were left standing. This is to do with vortex sheering -- the way the round sides shed...
Cilantro and Werewolves: Advice to Authors on Bad Reviews
Whenever I launch a book I feel transformed, like a crab that's just shed its shell. My two-fold feeling is: "I'm growing! I feel softer,...
Why I write for children
(This is an edited excerpt from the speech I recently gave at the Scholastic Authors' and Illustrators' dinner.) I'm happy to be among...