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Is my character “black enough”

I recently got this question from a writer, who agreed that answering it on the blog would be useful: My hero is a fifteen-year-old African[…]

Can you believe it’s been two months?

Spring is in the air. It’s been raining for the last several days, but it seems to be clearing up. While there hasn’t been much[…]

Books for NYC Schools, School Library Month, and kimbap

Dropped in on the Books for NYC Schools event to see Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier read. But the trains were running late, so I[…]

New York, New York

I’ve been meaning to post pictures to Facebook of all the things I’ve been up to lately (including pictures of my CUTE nephews from my[…]

Interviews, news, and Tu’s new submission guidelines

Link roundup from the coverage that Tu Books has been getting on the web, including interviews of me and coverage in Publisher’s Weekly: ETA: Opening[…]

What’s up with this New York talk?

Have you been wondering where I’ve been on this blog? Have you noticed me talking on Facebook or Twitter about a move and wondered what[…]

Writing for Young Readers Conference

I’m in the midst of a move and have been a bit too busy to post here, but hopefully this information will make up for[…]

Updated LTUE schedule

I now have a couple panels on Friday, so if you don’t make it there today, there’s still Friday and Saturday. I’m not even going[…]

Anime again: current touchstones

My local library’s anime selection is pretty dismal. This makes me sad, because their movie selection in other genres is really quite good (especially British[…]

My LTUE schedule

There’s a great little science fiction/fantasy convention (well, they call it a “symposium”) at BYU every year in February called Life, the Universe, and Everything.[…]

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