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Calling all Rochester, NY peeps... I'll be participating in the Rochester Teen Book Festival this coming Saturday, April 5th, from 10:00-5:00. There are many fabu authors coming to this thing. It should be a good time. Here's the link: http://www.teenbookfestival.org/...

I kept meaning to blog these past two weeks. Why haven’t you blogged? I asked myself. Because you have nothing to say, myself reminded me. Not having something to say has never stopped you from opening your mouth before, myself reminded me, myself, and I (and then I...

Today is my birthday. Right now, it looks like the sun is going to cooperate. It's sleepy, but it's doing a little yawn-and-stretch of pink over the trees. Go, sun! Whoohoo! My husband is treating me to a spa day. I don't have enough words to tell you how excited I am...

Hey, how many of you write fan fiction? Wow. Uh-huh. Lots of hands out there. And one person waving a plastic monkey, which is fine. We’re all friends here. No judgments. Could you turn off the monkey’s light-up fez, though, please? It’s getting me right in the eye....

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the first Viewer’s Choice Blog. It was so much fun that I think I’m going to make it a monthly feature. You’ll vote; I’ll write. So this month’s winners (we had a tie) were “What I’m working on now” and “Fan Fiction.” I...

Thanks to everybody for voting in the first Viewer's Choice Blog! Huzzah! It seems like there was a dead heat between #2 (What I'm working on now) and #9 (Fan fiction). It could be that one won out over the other but seeing as I'm entirely too lazy to play Florida...

I lost my iPod this week. I am still in mourning. Waaaaahhhhh! I swear it feels like losing my diary. All those personal playlists? Those one or two (oh, okay, or ten or twelve) reeeally embarrassing songs I should never have downloaded because they are complete...

Today is Maureen Johnson's birthday. Happy birthday, Maureen! Someday, I will surprise her with a weird video. Just as soon as she teaches me how to do it. So why don't you go to Maureen's blog and wish her a happy birthday? She also loves cake, ice cream, party hats,...

So, in honor of Valentine's Day, the delightfully twisted Maureen Johnson started a round of Zombie Idol. The rules are simple: You have to take a piece of literature (250 words or less) and zombify it. Already, Scott Westerfeld, Cassie Clare, Justine Larbelestier,...

The World Domination/Book Babes/Torso Twin tour is over, and I'm back in Brooklyn. I miss Shannon! *sniff* I will do more bloggage later in the week, but for now, I just want to remind all the NYC people that I will be signing tonight in Manhattan. Here is the scoop:...

It's Saturday...right? And I'm in Phoenix? I think so. Hold on. *looks out window* Yuppers, mountains and desert. Phoenix for sure. In a few hours, I will be visiting the super-neato indie bookstore, Changing Hands. Here's the info: CHANGING HANDS Saturday, February...

Ack! I meant to do a post this weekend, but then I ended up taking a sledgehammer to a boarded-up fireplace in our house and...oh, this is too long to tell now. Also too long to tell now--I WENT TO THE SPIDERWICK PREMIERE TONIGHT!!!! All you need to know, besides the...