It's launch day! STAND ON THE SKY is out!
Today is the day. My first true middle grade, STAND ON THE SKY, is out today, from HMH Kids Books in the US, and from Scholastic here in...
Announcing STAND ON THE SKY
I've been promising news for a while, and I am finally free to tell you -- I have a new book coming out! It's called Stand on the Sky,...
Secret Novel #5 is almost done!
Secret Novel #5 is almost due and almost done. Last step is reading it aloud to my kid. If you need us this weekend we’ll be in the...
A wool-carding draft
So! In November I finished a major edit of Secret Book #5. Here is how I do it – or how I did it this time. As of the end of October,...
Sometimes things ossify...
I finished reworking the opening of Novel #5 and intellectually I think the new opening is better but I have lived with the old opening...
Crossing the pit
Yesterday, as previously mentioned, I had a deep read of my editorial letter and my assorted scribblings to myself and based on calls...
For my next trick...
Manuscript for fiction #6 submitted yesterday. For my next trick, I am going to re-read the manuscript for fiction #5, pull apart the...