The countdown has begun…

Next Monday the 19th, I’ll post (here) and tweet (there) info on how to read an excerpt from THE FINE ART OR TRUTH OF DARE and how to order a special copy with a bonus inside.  

Another Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Songs playing on my iPod this week. Okay, it’s not like I think you should care. It’s more that I love lists, am an unabashed music junkie, and always love hearing what other people are listening to (Tell me!). As far as I’m concerned,...

Top Ten Tuesday Number Uno

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...

Love a good challenge?

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...

Things that go bump in the night

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...

A revisit to the soapbox

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...