This is just a quick, delighted post to say that I will be briefly in the UK in June, and my UK publishers have managed to squeeze in two public events among the non-public ones. I know its not very ...
I know what it means to manage my time, but my question is how do you know your goals?When i read your blog i always have the feeling that you kept the invincibility of youth, that theres nothing tha...
This week has been a delightful one. First of all, my new Metloef bodhran (Irish drum) arrived in the mail on Monday, and Im so looking forward to recording with it. Secondly, the Old House of S...
Recall, gentle reader, that I promised you the tale of the Trampoline of Doom. Here is that tale. Its a short one. More like a encyclopedic entry in the Great Big Book of Items of Doom than anything ...
I am finally, finally, finally back home. I was sort of back home last week, after being out on tour for two weeks, but then I had to fly back out to California for five days of sort-of wedding (dont...
Im aware that many exciting things have happened in my life in the last week, but for me, the most immediately exciting is the fact that I managed to pull off making avocado sushi rolls.I am very mot...
I apologize for my blog radio silence. You dont have to tell me that Ive been bad. The weight of my shame dogs my footsteps. That said, its not entirely without reason. Ive been on the road since the...
Just a tiny bit over a year ago, my author hero Diana Wynne Jones died. I wrote a letter to her on my blog that she would never see and mourned that there would be no more Diana Wynne Jones books. No...
Man, Im revoltingly excited to let you guys know that Entertainment Weekly is giving an exclusive peek at The Raven Boys -- they have the first two chapters up for you to read here.I hope you like th...
Id be able to pack faster if I didnt want people to think I was a magician.Tomorrow morning first thing Im headed off to the airport to begin two weeks of touring to fun places (Texas! California! Te...
In my continued attempt to answer reader questions, I decided to pull another one out of the stack today. Some of the questions I got were quite specific (like “what font did you use for the chapter ...
I always feel a little tremulous about adding Virginia events to my calendar because I, like all authors, fear the prophet-in-your-home-town effect of local events. There is nothing weirder than havi...
I feel a little guilty because I solicited reader questions a few weeks ago with the full intention of immediately jumping on them. And then, instead, life jumped on ME, and began punching me about t...
I realize that this announcement is probably not as thrilling to the rest of the human population as it is to me, but here it is:I have redesigned my website.And by "I," I really mean "...
The other day, VH1 asked me to do a review of the Hunger Games movie, which I did. Actually, the one that went live yesterday (read it here) is my second version of the review. I had to rewrite it be...
I have been a slightly to moderately bad blogger in the past few months, and I apologize. Not because Ive been pretty sparse with my posting, because there have been good reasons for it, but because ...
I’ll confess right up front that I’m not usually a big historical fiction fan. I realize this seems somewhat hypocritical of me, as I was a history major in college and adore history, but...
This past week, Ive begun work in earnest on my book trailer for The Raven Boys. This ones exciting and terrifying because Im a) returning to my artistic roots, colored pencil (as you can see, this u...
Today I was scraping chunks of files off my desktop and I realized I had a document that was called "Reader Questions" that Id been keeping to answer on the blog. I opened it and was deligh...
I have updated my March/ April events (I always add them here as soon I get the details of them) so I figured Id better post them here. Ive been enjoying my three months of hermit-like behavior over ...
My Jack Russell Terrier Peanut is a pretty magical animal.1. She is a friend to all cats. Indeed, Peanut is a friend to all animals in God’s green earth that are smaller than her, because anima...
Ive been asked several times in the last few months if I would do another critique partner love connection on my blog and I now have enough requests that Im going to go ahead and do it. I did one WAY...
You might recall that ten authors helpfully showed off their process from rough draft to final earlier this year. I am pleased to report that I have twp others to add -- Gayle Forman, author of IF I ...
Today while I was trying to work, my printer was just sitting there. Looking at me.And on my desk there was a brand new Sharpie. Just sitting there. Looking at me.*elapsed time 1 hour 20 minutes*Fina...
I tell people all the time that my cat plays fetch, but they dont believe me. Not in a meaningful way. Sometimes it feels like it takes YouTube to end any discussion these days.
Its been awhile since I posted foreign covers, and as I find them intriguing, I figured Id share the ones Id gotten since my last wrap up.In other news, I have a Lego Dobby on my desk and for some re...
. . . but because of the high prevalence of norovirus in our house (if you dont know what that is, I highly suggest NOT googling), I lost interest in operating my brain and I will instead share a pho...
Im not sure how much time youve spent with cows, but theyre pretty friendly.Not the brightest bulbs out there, but still, more willing to give you the time of day than say, a squirrel or a [redacted]...
Ah! Behold -- Amazon has updated their page for THE RAVEN BOYS, and it has a longer description. That means Im safe to share it here, too“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spiri...
I am generally a productive person. I have vices, but they generally are vices that make me work more, not less, which is convenient when you are in the writerly line of work. I have even honed a fin...
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