You guys, I am so excited about this. Like, really, really super excited. Seriously. I don’t think you are understanding the level of excitement. Ahem. Moving on. About two weeks ago, the wonderful Dawn Rae Miller (whom I was introduced to through her rockin’ awesome group blog, The YA Curator) put out a call for [...]
I’ve been in Star Valley for a while, visiting with Geek Husband’s family, so I was MIA for a while. Sorry about that. I had a fun post planned for today, but then I opened my Google Reader and I decided I needed to post about this instead. Because, you see, Natalie Whipple got a [...]
***First thing first: go congratulate Kate Hart (she of Two For Tuesday creation fame ) on signing with her agent!*** Since I write YA books, I tend to read a lot of YA books. And – surprise! – YA books are primarily what I talk about on my blog. But YA is not all I [...]
I had a really fabulous blog post planned for y’all today (okay, you got me – it was just your average run-of-the-mill blog post, but whatever), but the weather had other plans. See, Mother Nature thought it would be fun yesterday afternoon to send a bunch of ginormous hailstones through my kitchen windows. It was [...]
I’ve noticed quite a few new faces around the blog in the last few weeks. Welcome! Let me just assure you that, despite yesterday’s evidence to the contrary, I am not crazy. It’s just that this cake is the first one I have ever been commissioned to do, so it is a little more stressful [...]
The amazing Natalie Whipple has landed an agent. Not just ANY agent-she is now represented by Nathan Bransford. SQUEEE! Natalie has been writing and querying for a long time-she sent her first query to Nathan back in 2007. When she was rejected, she kept on writing. And writing. And writing. Relax, I’m a Ninja is [...]
I actually posted this on my personal family blog not long ago, but I figure since I have this blog partially so I don’t drive family members crazy with publishing stuff on the family blog, it bears a repeat here (also the news is just so amazing, I can’t help but to share it again). [...]
