Posts about authors

Oh hey, look what I found

Pictures from a recent visit to NYC by Cynthia Leitich Smith! These were taken in Feb. 2011, but I completely forgot to post them. What’s[…]

Workshop and conference miscellanea, other events

Just got invited last minute to join a panel at ASJA on Saturday on “Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch” from 11 a.m. to noon this Saturday,[…]

Tu teasers

I find I don’t want to blog much anymore, and mostly it’s because ever since my site broke, it hasn’t been quite right. I’m seriously[…]

Meeting authors, Kitty Saturday

I haven’t had a chance yet to post about my time at the Ventura/Santa Barbara SCBWI conference over Halloween weekend. I had a great time—the[…]

Save Shannon Hale’s life

Via Rick Walton: If you are the highest bidder, Shannon Hale will rave about you on her blog, describing in great detail how you saved[…]

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[…]

The Chosen One

I got this ARC a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been holding onto it because I knew from going to Carol’s reading that it[…]

Provo Book Festival (& other recent events, including a reading cat)

Well, now that I've gotten my camera back up (I killed the battery Saturday, forgetting to upload the pictures while it was still hooked up[…]

My Conduit schedule, and other interesting goings-on that weekend

Note that Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary is the Guest of Honor at this year’s Conduit. Along with that, the Taylers are hosting a book[…]

New class planned for early June, more local events

I don’t have a date pinned down yet, but I’m planning to do another community seminar in early June: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction[…]