Hey-o! Happy Friday! This is no ordinary Friday. It is "finish the ham" Friday! how thoughtful of me to post vegetarian ham for the non-grossing out of non-meat-eaters :-)Why ham, you sa...
Hi there! Ive been a little slow in answering questions about BEA and ALA and if there will be ARCs and if I will be there, etc. So here is the deal. There will be no ARCs of Days of Blood & Star...
Yippeeee! Here at last: the US cover for Days of Blood & Starlight!I really love it, I think it is so striking and awesome and COOL. YAY!Thank you, awesome publishers!It was announced/unveiled on...
Hi! A fun thing. With 11 million views on youtube, youve likely seen it already but I hadnt, and it is the cutest thing. If you didnt already adore Kristen Bell, try not to now :-)
HI!So, I was going to just put up an "All work and no play" post a la Shining, but I am not feeling dull, so that wouldnt be right. The above is more accurate. Im not handling #5 so well righ...
Color feeds the soul. Some random images.(Good morning!)(More pretties here.)
Look! Another edition of Daughter came today! GREEK! Cool graphic cover art.(Can anyone tell me what the title says?Something + Something.Is it Angels and Devils or something?)This is so cool. I love...
(hello! I was just going through the archives of my olden times blog, and came across this, written after the experience of having finished my first novel. Thought Id share :-)HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL1. ...
I think the Universe is trying to tell us something. These are from three separate batches of fortune cookies over the past month or two. Actually, these were all Jims fortunes, so I guess the Univer...
Hi all! Im back from my two-night in-town hotel writing spree! Its good to be home and cuddling my people, and also it was really good to be totally in the book for that time. Ive never gone to a hot...
*gasp gasp type type fret fret*Oh man.See you in a few days. Possibly.*gasp*
Hee hee hee. Clementines sandwich today. When I posted this on Twitter it was suggested that I might be procrastinating but it isnt so! I had gotten home from writing at the cafe, high on a 2200...
Hi world! Above, presented by little friend, the days remaining in April to finish writing Days of Blood & Starlight, with two May days (mayday!) graciously provided by Alvina who will not begin ...
This is it. The moment I have been living in terror of for weeks. Months. My final-final-finalest deadline. The deadline that I cannot miss. The ninth-life deadline. What is known charmingly in publi...
Hey guys! Look, a cool icon from my lovely publishers for the Childrens Choice Book Award, for which Daughter of Smoke and Bone is nominated for Teen Book of the Year! Have you voted? Please vote bef...
First, from marvelous British publishers Hodder & Stoughton,the UK paperback of Daughter of Smoke & Bone!Very different from the hardcover, and just as beautiful and classic. I LOVE IT!I...
No preamble. Just this. You must watch it.Are you fired up? WOW.My favorite lines:"Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an a**hole, and no one invites him to t...
Oh my god. You guys. Look.Favorite line? "I didnt mean to be a childrens author. It was a horrible accident."Love you, Simon Pegg :-)
Did you even know that this was a thing? Inadvertently creepy Easter bunny photo ops? I had no idea, no idea AT ALL of the very many ways that a bunny can go horribly wrong. Behold.OH MY GOD, EEE-VIL...
YUM.What could be better than A REALLY GOOD GRILLED CHEESE?Im glad you asked. How about A REALLY GOOD GRILLED CHEESE served on A SCHOOL BUS?Welcome to The Grilled Cheese Grill on Northeast Alber...
Hi! I put that title up there wondering what would happen if I just started to write about writing. Its been too long since I have, which is weird because I love to write about writing! But I dont kn...
Honors for "favorite book" change constantly in Clementine-land, of course, but some stick around longer than others. These current faves are great because Jim and I dont get sick of them! Fi...
Another lazy post: some dreamlike images from Pinterest.Dont they make you want to write stories?Some killer potential book cover images here.Happy day!
Hey, did I tell you I wrote a story for an anthology thats coming out this year? Its my first anthology story, Im super excited. If youve been reading my blog for a looong time, you might recognize t...
Hey! I never saw this. It just popped up on my google alerts, a cool book trailer from the German publisher of Daughter of Smoke & Bone:AWESOME!And wait. What?? I just found this fan-made trailer...
Hey, guess what! Awesome thing: Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a finalist for the CCBA Teen Book of the Year! Thats the Childrens Choice Book Awards, and its one of five finalists in the teen category...
So I dont usually go on and on like this about a movie, youd think I have a vested interest in John Carter or something, and I dont, but there was just something about the atmosphere of negativity le...
Random cute from my Pinterest "CUTE" board:Bears are so comical.Below, this is totally a stick-up! What do you suppose their demands are?Above, the friendliest face in the world;below, the ti...
There are three writer-illustrators of surpassing sweetness and loveliness that Jim and I have been a little obsessed with lately, in a get-everything-theyve-done-for -Clementines-collection kind of w...
Please go see John Carter on opening day (March 9). Or at least opening weekend.This John Carter:Not this John Carter:(not that theres anything wrong with him :-)Check it out:Doesnt it look GOOD?New ...
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