July 2008

I’m off to SF RWA National Conference! To those of you going, hope to see you there! And I’ll probably share lots of pics next week. But for now, the Fictionistas are interviewing the YA RITA finalists this week, and giving away books! I believe my interview will be up Wed

haha, I’m not sure what to title this post! Unfortunately, it’s been a not so great week for me in my biz writing world. *sigh* But that’s the ups and downs with this career. I won’t go into details at the moment, but that’s why I’ve been a little q

One more week before Nationals and I feel very unorganized! This will be my second time going, and with the RITA noms I have a lot more appointments scheduled, which is great–I’ll be busy! I don’t feel nervous yet. I think because I have so much on my plate right now

I’ve interviewed Rosemary before on YA Fresh, so it’s a pleasure to do so again, this time for the RITA tour! Rosemary is my other RITA nominated Young adult book pal nominated for “Best First Book”. Hello RITA Nominee, Rosemary! Readers and writers often like

Just in from my book signing with Stephanie Kuehnert (I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE) at Borders in Monterey, CA. (Not Minnesota!) There was a mix up and our book signing materials were sent to the wrong store in another state, but Borders Express pulled through and had signs made and di

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to share about a book signing with MTV Books author, Stephanie Kuehnert and myself at Borders Express in Monterey, California tomorrow night, July 16th – 7:00 pm. Steph will be signing I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE and I’ll be signing GRAFFITI GIR

Three more great interviews to go to finish up the “Best First Book” RITA nominees blog tour! *whew* Thanks for those who have commented and are lurking! Today we have author, Helen Brenna! Helen’s nominated novel is Treasure. Yes, treasure! I love treasure stories a

Yay, and the winners on the blog for PRIME TIME are: …Jessica! …Jill! …Kimmyl! Woot! Okay, Ladies, I will pass along your names along with the myspace winners to Hank. You’ll email your mailing address to Hank through her website here, with “Prime Time Wi

I’m topping off Friday with the RITA blog tour with Agatha Award winner, Hank Phillippi Ryan! Not only that but Hank is being ultra cool and giving away 10 books of MIRA re-issues of PRIME TIME to 10 lucky visitors through the weekend. So if you comment here, or my myspace post,

We have our next RITA interview with Inspirational author, Jamie Carie, author of Snow Angel. Jamie is the wonderful person to start this blog tour and she’s done a fantastic job. Thanks Jamie! Hello RITA Nominee, Jamie! Thanks so much for chatting with me. Could you please tell