Can’t even call it a dusting. But still. There was BIG excitement around here when this happened. Some of us can’t wait for the REAL thing. :-) Hope you all have a great weekend.
Winners!
We have winners! Winner of SHIVER and SWEEP is…Brooke DelVecchio. Winners of the ReVamped bookmarks signed by Ada Adams are…Lea Krnjeta, Justine, and Merisha Abbott. Congrats to you all! Please send me an email with your mailing address, and…
Thankfully
Over the holiday weekend, in between cooking up a Thanksgiving feast, copy editing a fellow writer’s book that’ll be coming out very soon, and working on Jonas’ story Indomitable, I started a new knitting project. I know, I know! I…
Shiver & Sweep Giveaway!
I am slowly thinning out my overcrowded bookshelves and have two more fabulous YA books to give away to you. (Lucky YOU!) One fortuitous person is going to win and Will it be YOU? (I hope so!) Shiver is…
Saying Goodbye to Fall
I love this season like no other, and every year I fall in love again. We pull out our sweaters, find hats and sometimes scarves. I start making massive pots of soup every week and we dip fresh bread into…
Switching Gears (a little)
Okay, so I have good news and (sorta) bad news. Which do you want first? The bad news? Great. (I’m like that too.) Here goes: I’m realizing that Imaginable is not going to be ready to be published by the…
Preparing
Baking fun treats and practicing for my reading tomorrow. It’s going to be a dramatic reading, of course, because once an actor, ALWAYS an actor. ;-) (Also on the to-do list before the reading: swim lessons and ice skating. Because…
Reading/Signing in NY this week
Anyone in the Ithaca, NY, area this week should stop on by my reading/signing at the Trumansburg Library on Thursday, November 1, at 7 pm. I’ll do a short reading and then we can all talk books. Also? FREE cookies.…
Gratitude
Today I’m steeped in gratitude for… * one last warm Fall day filled with sunshine and golden falling leaves. * the coming cold days to be spent curled up in front of the wood stove, toasting ourselves to bone-deep warmth.…
Another Kind of Revision
I’m revising a hat I made last year—unmaking it while I reknit it again a tad smaller (it’s kind of fun to unravel it as I knit…I haven’t done this before). I think this is the hat’s third (and last-because-it’s-now-exactly-how-I-want-it)…