Posts tagged "YA"

Updates and Foreign Deals!

Posted on February 2nd, 2012

For those of you who follow my writing partner, Amie Kaufman, this will come as no surprise, as she’s already announced it on her blog. (For those of you who don’t, march right over there and follow her!) Anyway, we have some rockin’ news to share: WRECKED has sold as three-book deals in Poland (Otwarte) [...]

Books as Fingerprints

Posted on January 18th, 2012

It used to be that hardcopy book people would get this insane fire in their eyes when someone would ask them about e-readers or e-books or the future of publishing. It’s that “I like the weight of them” look, the “it’s the way they smell” look, the “you can pry my hard copy books out [...]

BOOK DEAL NEWS!

Posted on November 30th, 2011

Some of you who are readers of either my blog or Amie Kaufman’s blog may know that we’ve been working on a collaborative novel together. We’ve been writing together in one form or another ever since we met a bit over six years ago, so it seemed like no big thing to evolve from that [...]

Why YA?

Posted on May 7th, 2011

Sometimes when I have the “What do you do/I’m a writer/Oh, what do you write/Books for kids” conversation with new people, I get a Look that I’ve come to recognize.  It’s the “Oh.  For kids. So not real books” look.  (It’s similar to the “Oh, fantasy” look, but that’s another blog post.)  I always find [...]