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Blue Heaven

I spent last week at a writing workshop on an island in Ohio.  Great friends, great conversation, lots of long walks and long talks.  Also it rained almost the whole time.  At the beginning of the week we looked like the top picture: And at the end of the week we looked like the bottom […]

Posted on 04/27/2011 04:56 pm | Comments Off on Blue Heaven
 

Tiny bit of good news, also contest

Today’s happy news is that The Magic Thief is on the state book award list in New Jersey, which is its twelfth state list! If you live in Illinois and are a kid in grades K-8, you can enter a student video contest and win a trip to a book conference!  Details are here.

Posted on 11/02/2010 11:13 am | Comments Off on Tiny bit of good news, also contest
 

Newer news

My next book has a title!  It’s called Winterling, but I don’t know yet when it’ll be out. # Here’s a video from some Magic Thief readers. # And a cool art collage from the books by the illustrator, Antonio Javier Caparo # The Magic Thief: Found got a terrific review at Kidsread.com.

Posted on 10/05/2010 11:49 am | 11 Comments