by lb-admin | Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hi. I am typing this from my couch. I cannot move from my couch. Hungry for bagel? Too bad. Can’t move from the couch. Need to drink some water? Get used to dehydration. Butt on couch. There is laundry staging a coup in my basement—I’m pretty sure I hear my dirty...
by lb-admin | Mar 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hey Peeps, Just a quick update before I put my head down into my book again. This week is NYC Teen Author Festival. It’s chock full of awesome YA events. Below is a list of stuff I’m doing this week and below that is the link to the whole shebang. Hope you...
by lb-admin | Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
March 11th has rolled around again, signaling that it’s time for the annual birthday blog. One of my favorite cheesy things to do on my birthday is read a gazillion of those “You Born Today” thingies. My mom always sends me the one from my hometown newspaper...
by lb-admin | Mar 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m racing down the final stretch of the first draft of BEAUTY QUEENS. Well, that’s optimistic. I WISH I were racing. More like limping while dragging a large slab of beef wrapped in chains. (Don’t ask me where that image came from. I have not, to my knowledge, ever...
by lb-admin | Mar 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the fun things about writing in a town different from your own is that everything seems new and somewhat miraculous: “Why look! They give you coffee in a blue mug in this café. What wonders will we next behold?” While here, we’ve written in a lovely bookstore...
by lb-admin | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I nearly killed Holly Black’s coffee pot. It began to wheeze and fill up at the top with brown water and refused to drip actual coffee into the carafe. Somehow I had managed to clog it up and my repeated attempts at resuscitating it were unsuccessful. Like...