by Melissa | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Love lists. Love them. Hence, I might find myself blogging regularly for the first time ever in my bloggy life. On Tuesdays. We’re having a kinda haphazard Harry Potter marathon here. Meaning, not in completely the right order, and it’s taking a really...
by Melissa | Aug 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Soapbox time. FYI, I have very clean feet. I really really wanna write about music. I usually wanna write about music. Now, I’ve been playing this new song over and over again all week… See? Can’t help myself. I wanted to request end-of-summer...
by Melissa | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m writing a ghost story. It’s set in contemporary coastal Maine and revolves around a po’d Philadelphia girl, a snarky Penobscot Indian boy, and a long-ago movie star. Somebody’s dead, although whether that body belongs to one of the above...
by Melissa | Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is a re-post. Less laziness than it might seem. In the wake of a narrow-visioned, uniformed article in the Wall Street Journal about YA lit, Sherman Alexie wrote a (not-surprisingly) intelligent, eloqent, poignant response HERE. Which inspired me to re-post some...
by Melissa | Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nice little plug for English Boys in The Express, an offshoot of the Washington Post.
by Melissa | Apr 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Where does time go? Mazatlan, I suspect. I’ve been lax in posting. Pretty much from the beginning, but certainly in the past month. I have excuses, lots and lots of them. One is that I seem to be regressing, technologically speaking. I used to be fearless and...
by Melissa | Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I saw a mock-up of my next cover (yay!). Always a tingle. It’s funny, the last one got such mixed responses, from lots of “Love it. Love!” to “Wouldn’t be caught dead holding it in public; bought the e-book.” to “What is the...
by Melissa | Mar 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Anyone who has taken my class, or has asked me for advice on good books for adolescent and teen readers knows exactly how I feel about Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. For anyone who will keep reading for a few lines, here it is in a...
by Melissa | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Self-explanatory, right? Thanks to those of you who’ve sent playlists. I’m attaching one of my faves below. But first, today’s list from the cold, scurvy-ridden depths of my Mac: Here Comes the Sun (the Beatles) Beautiful Day (U2) Heatwave (Martha...
by Melissa | Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Titles are tricky. I’ve learned over the years that getting attached to one early on is a very, very bad idea. Either my editor hates it, my editor’s boss hates it, the majority of the people I bounce it off hate it, or it’s been used– either...
