A couple books I recently loved:Mystery of the Tempest: A Fisher Key Adventure, by Sam Cameron, which is kind of a brilliant, modern-day Hardy Boys-esque adventure in which the young detectives are i...
I want to share some of the awesomeness of independent bookstores with yall. These pictures are inadequate at expressing the full experience of my tour, because they only show two of the bookstores I...
Before I get to the questions, I love Justine Larbalestiers recent blog post, written to her friends and extended family: "You dont have to read my books." Now seems like an appropriate time ...
How appropriate that on the last day of my book tour for Bitterblue, the drive to the airport should bring me over one of the worlds most beautiful bridges, the Golden Gate. Bitterblue is out in the ...
Where does the author go when she finds out that her book hit #2 on the New York Times bestseller list?The umbrella store, of course. (Bella Umbrella at the corner of 1st and Pine in downtown Seattle...
Today I took a ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island and back again. In the course of that ferry ride, first I got some super good personal news that Id been hoping for; then I found out that Barac...
Some of these photographed better at night, and some were surprisingly interesting during the day when the window was reflecting the street. The store is Luly Yang.
I have so much sadness today at the news of the death of Maurice Sendak. I am crying at my airport gate. So much sympathy for his loved ones, and so much gratitude for all his work gave me – more tha...
… when you find yourself fascinated by random shapes in your hotel room. Lamps. Mirrors. The corner. My editor encouraged me to take lots of pictures while Im on tour, and post them on my blog. This ...
So, as Ive mentioned before, in the spring before Bitterblues eighteenth birthday (before the events of Bitterblue take place), Bitterblue, Katsa, Raffin, Po, and Giddon wrote some letters to each ot...
Driving around Washington DC is different from driving anywhere else. Today, on the way to the airport, we were driving past one beautiful, stately building after another before it occurred to me to ...
A note to my readers in the Chicago area that the event at Andersons Bookshop in Naperville is at 2 PM on Saturday, May 5, not 7 PM as I said previously. Sorry for the error!Saturday, May 5, 2pm Ande...
Today is Bitterblues release day! Happy reading to my readers. Happy birthday to my girl. Its been a long time coming. For them thats interested, heres just one of the many seeds that planted in my m...
Serbian cover of Graceling, published by Carobna knjiga. I didnt even know this book was out until Carobna knjigas Fire landed in my mailbox. Click to enbiggen, this is a cool one! I love the blood i...
I signed lots of books for lots of people in a very short time on Thursday, and a number of souls, probably noticing the mania in my eyes, kindly expressed concern for my health. On the off chance th...
For any readers with ebook devices, theres currently a free sampler of my work available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apples iTunes Store. The sampler contains excerpts from Graceling, Fire, an...
French cover of BB ----> Someday, I will have a plane to catch and not feel like Im on the wrong side of an insurmountable To Do list. Im sorry guys, I have lots of good books I want to talk about...
A book release can be overwhelming. A lot of factors converge at once. Reviews, to be honest, dont really faze me, but they do create a lot of swirling noise. Theres a lot of noise in general during ...
The response of my two-year-old niece, codename: Isis, when she saw the ARC of Bitterblue: "It no have pictures in it."Well, guess what, Isis? Youre going to like the final version of the boo...
Hey everybody, sorry for the radio silence this past week. Ive been on the road. I plan to be back next week, hopefully with some info about the Bitterblue release. Until then, I thought Id share thi...
Joel Stein thinks that adults shouldnt be reading books published for young adults and children."I’m sure all those books are well written," he writes. "So is Horton Hatches the Egg. But ...
In lieu of a post today, Ill link you to Cindy Pons interview with me about Bitterblue, over at The Enchanted Inkpot. Cindy is running a Bitterblue ARC giveaway, so head over there if youre intereste...
I recently reread the Hunger Games books, in anticipation of the first movie. I dont have time to write the post Id like to write, but Im going to give myself an hour or so to work through some of my...
Sometime in January, This American Life broadcast a show called "Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory," about what Mike Daisey, creator of the theatrical piece "The Agony and the Ecstasy of St...
Flowers in my office.
I wish every American who thinks we should tighten our immigration laws would watch this TED talk, in which technologist Tan Le tells her own immigration story. Next, I dont know how many of you are ...
Les Miserables opened in Boston on Tuesday night, and I was there. Holy cow. I knew Id like it a lot, because, well, its Les Mis; but I hadnt done my homework beforehand, and was therefore completely...
First, its come to my attention that Amazon has the prologue and first chapter of Bitterblue online, for anyone who wants a sneak peek.MORE IMPORTANTLY: As you may or may not know, in conjunction wit...
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