I am remiss. BenBella Books has reissued an updated version of Secrets of The Dragon Riders, which contains fabulous essays by YA authors on the series by Christopher Paolini (Eragon). We all updated our essays after Brsinger was released. Mine, entitled “My Dragon, Myself” was fun to write and fun to update — I want [...]
The Broken Teaglass, by Emily Arsenault, spoke to me for some reason, even before I read it. Something about the title attracted me. And then I found out it was about a lexicographer (who works at a dictionary publisher, my dream job…though I didn’t know it until I read this book). If you’re looking for [...]
I heart Suzanne Collins (despite the fact that her name is similar to my state’s not-so-heartish junior Senator). When I heard the plot of Hunger Games, I had to read it. I loved it. But then I heard that Catching Fire had a cliffhanger ending, so I wasn’t going to read it. Until it jumped [...]
It may surprise you to know that I read. A lot. Not as much as I used to before I wrote full-time, but more than most people I know. I also love to talk books. But I have not blogged on them because the writer’s community is divided about whether being honest about someone else’s [...]
