Yesterday a play I wrote received a staged reading. Something to know about me is I’m a little bit shy. I write because I love it, but I also find it an easier and more enjoyable form of communication than talking. However, when working with dramatic writing forms, rather than short fiction or novels, there is …
When I write (usually long hand, I type later) I like to have one thing other than a pen and paper. For those long minutes when I actually have to stop and think between pages about what to do next I need a ball of some kind. Usually I have a baseball or a Spaldeen, …
“The Holiday Season” usually means December, Hanukkah and Christmas. But, I feel like spring is its own holiday season, with Passover and Easter always falling close together (the same week this year actually). My family also has its majority of birthdays in the spring, so that always adds to the celebratory nature at my house. …
Yesterday was International Women’s Day. March is also Read a Book Month. In honor of both those occasions I’ve compiled a small (and thus incomplete) list of awesome women and girls in fiction. Who did I miss? In no particular order: 1- Hermione Granger – Harry Potter 2- Katniss Everdeen – The Hunger Games 3- Lyra Belacqua …
I gave my first in person interview a two weeks ago and today it came out in print. I didn’t say anything terribly embarrassing and I don’t look like a crazy person in the picture, so overall, it was a success. However, I can now honestly say there are few things more terrifying than a …
A Sequel to the “The House of the Scorpion”, by Nancy Farmer is going to be a thing! So I’m pretty excited. Never heard of “The House of the Scorpion“? It was a YA science fiction novel from 2002. It was also my favorite book when I was growing up (outside of the Harry Potter books). If …
Neil Armstrong died today at 82. 43 years after he landed on the moon, and 19 days after NASA made it back into the news by landing the Curiosity Rover. Neil wasn’t a fiction writer, but I do believe he was an influence on me, my writing. My love for science fiction, my obsession with …
So, the Curiosity Rover is safe on Mars now and is already sending back color photographs. That’s pretty cool right? I think so. As a space geek (who would’ve loved to work for NASA except for my unfortunately poor math skills) this is the best news I’ve gotten in ages. Mars was always my favorite …
When I went into Barnes and Noble recently I remember looking at the YA fiction section and noticing that a lot of the book covers were what I like to call “photoshopped”. That’s not supposed to be denigrating (after all, the We Are Savages cover went through a little photoshopping itself) but it’s just what I call …
So, a few more things about the cover. 1) It was hand illustrated (in soft pastels, as already mentioned) 2) It was drawn at a much larger scale than it appears 3) It took the illustrator about 3 weeks to finish Have any questions about the cover art? Feel free to leave comments below