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MECHANICA Blog Tour: Week One Wrap-Up
Week one of the Mechanica blog tour has drawn to a close, and there are only three days left until publication! Oh god. It’s been a rollicking ride, with guest post, interviews, and reviews. There’s a...
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MECHANICA Movie Dream Cast
This is a movie that by necessity takes place somewhat Out Of Time, because some of these actors, okay, maybe couldn’t play teenagers anymore. But this is also a movie that Isn’t Actually Happening, so...
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MECHANICA Blog Tour: Week Two Wrap-Up
I haven’t wanted to write this post, because it means the blog tour is over! But my second book is out in the world now, and that is the important part. It’s hard to let go of the finished books and...
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Five Good Things {No. 6}
·I am really loving Cory Godbey‘s moody, ethereal, fairytalesque artwork right now. I first found his work on Pinterest, and I couldn’t pick just one piece to show here! ·Daniel José Older‘s essay...
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Meán Fómhair: Celebrating the Equinox
“Hey, what’s the Irish word for September?” I asked Richie this morning. My husband stopped doing the dishes and ran through the months of the year under his breath. “Meán Fómhair,” he said. “It...
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Five Good Things {No. 7}
·My artist of the moment is Sara Falli, whose work I found Pinterest-diving for something to decorate my new editorial services page (more below). Her creepy-gorgeous gouache paintings are just...
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Book Recommendation: DEERSKIN
Title: Deerskin Author: Robin McKinley Publisher: Ace Books, 1993 Author’s note: There is a story by Charles Perrault called Donkeyskin which, because of its subject matter, is often not included in...
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#NaNoWriMo: You’re Tougher Than Your Book
[I’m a municipal liaison for NaNoWriMo this year! This is the week two pep talk I sent to my region.] My dear, lovely Galway wrimos, We’re here, in double-digit NaNo days! We’re a third of the way...
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Five Good Things {No. 8}
·American Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and this is the fourth year that I’ve spent it in Ireland. That seems super weird, but yep: in 2012 I was travelling in Dublin, and for the last two years Richie and...
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Happy Winter Solstice
and Christmas and Yule. From my home to yours, goats and all. (artist: cutiepainting on Fiverr)
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Mechanica II & The Forest Queen
OK. Yes. OK. Yay! Deep breath. I have been secreting this news away for a little while (mostly), and I can finally share it with you. From Publishers Marketplace today: Betsy Cornwell’s two companion...
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Five Good Things {No. 9}
·Dallas Clayton‘s doodle wisdom lights up my social media. ·I’m on track to meet my deadlines for the Mechanica sequels. That doesn’t sound glamorous, but it’s good and important. I sleep very well at...
View ArticlePARABOLA Podcast: Goodness
Happy March! I have exactly one month from today to get my Mechanica sequel manuscript off to my editor (eek and hurray), so this post will be short. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve started a...
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Five Good Things {No. 10}
·I finished writing the Mechanica sequel, and I sent it to my editor a whole hour and seven minutes before my deadline! In the process I suffered a little, wore the same clothes too many days in the...
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Sister God
I recently wrote about my journey from teenage born-again Christian to young adult agnostic witch for the new issue of PARABOLA, The Divine Feminine. That essay, “Sister God,” is now available online...
View ArticleParaboloa Podcast, Episode 4: “Innocence and Experience”
I somehow managed to read the end of Peter Pan out loud without crying. YOU’RE WELCOME. Also included: the first part of Tracy Cochran’s very cool essay on Paradise Lost, youthful envy and arrogance,...
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Five Good Things, no. 11
·Well that, first of all! My editor emailed me the other night with the news and I couldn’t stop laughing long enough to tell my husband what I was laughing about. Mechanica‘s Kirkus star made me cry,...
View ArticleVENTURESS: Cover Reveal and Soundtrack
The Venturess cover is finally here! The full HQ reveal plus an interview and giveaway are on Hypable now. As a special bonus, you can listen to some highlights from my Venturess writing playlist,...
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Take the key from behind your grandmother’s portrait. I am certain your father still keeps it in the foyer—no one will have touched it in years, I hope. But you, darling, will be able to find the key....
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VENTURESS Excerpt on HMH Teen
Venturess is coming out on August 1, but HMH Teen is already offering a sample chapter on Tumblr. I said they could choose any excerpt they liked, and it turned out they chose one of my favorite bits...
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