A surprise in the mail
A present from my editor! Can’t wait for 2011!
“What’s your book about?”
There is no question a writer likes less than “What is your book about?” How do you sum up 300+ pages into a single thirty-second sound bite? The solution? Befriend a cataloger! Catalogers are the people in the library world whose job it is to decide where books belong on the shelves. They’re also in [...]
YA Historical Fiction Challenge
So I’ve decided to join the YA Historical Fiction Challenge hosted over at YA Bliss. My goal: read five YA historicals during 2011. Very doable! Tiny, personal rules: * Nothing set in the middle ages! J must read things outside her personal historical cosmos. * Each book will be set in a different time period. [...]
Nine books I read this year that I tell everyone to read
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott Nothing by Jaine Teller Rash by Pete Hautman The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King Hot Lunch by Alex Bradley Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stark Tyrell by Coe Booth Candor by Pam Bachorz
Winter Holiday comes early this year
I’m thrilled to announce that my YA historical novel, Without the Walls, has sold to Harcourt and is slated for publication in the fall of 2012. My agent has described it as gorgeous, in spite of (or perhaps because of) all the hubris and violence. I cannot be more excited!