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So, some rumors have been flying about the If I Stay movie. I wasn't going to bother commenting on them because that just spreads more rumors, but now that it's all officially out there in the Media and the Blogosphere so, I'm weighing in.

The rumors are twofold.

One is that Dakota Fanning is going to play Mia. I have no confirmation of this being true. I get my information same as you all, from the Interwebs. But I think she'd be amazing. What has she done that she hasn't been great in? She's ...

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A few weeks ago, I posted a diatribe about hipster directors co-opting children's books and turning them into self-conscious indie films, decidedly NON-kid kid films, but kid films that adult hipster parents could love.

Of course, I never claim to know what I'm talking about so I'd written the post not having actually seen the two films I was bemoaning: Where The Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Nor had my five-year-old daughter seen them.

Well, now Willa has seen both of them and I've...

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First off, two admissions:

1. I don't drink. Not anymore. I would like to have some really glamorous drank-to-excess-now-12-step story (which I know is only glamorous if you DON'T actually have one) but the truth is, these days, if I drink, I go straight from sober to hungover without passing tipsy. And a migraine to boot.

2. I really, really, really hate the whole mystique of the tooorrrtuuurrred writer/artist/fuckwit who is so PAINED by his art that he must drink/drug/assholize and be...

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So, the 2010 William C. Morris Nominees were announced. This is the ALA Award for a debut young-adult author.

Here are the finalists:

I've been hearing such great things about Ash by Melinda Lo,The Everafter by Amy Huntley, and  Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan, all of which have jumped to the top of my TBR pile.

The other two, I can speak personally to. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, I'm about three-quarters of the way through right now and it's amazing. It's like Twilight ...

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At five foot four, I'm not sure if I qualify as a short story writer. But having never actually written a short story, as opposed to a novel, I know I definitely don't qualify as a short-story writer.

But I'd better start qualifying. A Dutch teen magazine has asked me to write an original short story for them. A romance. 1500 words. I was supposed to have it done by today. I'm too busy revising, and I haven't even thought of an idea so tackling a new genre, not gonna happen right now. What...

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I'm feeling gloomy; it's gray out again. I'm sick again. Revisions are like a lead weight around my leg. So, what better time to change the subject with a list of random things I'm grateful for.

1. That I'm going to South Carolina tomorrow, where it will be in the 70s and sunny and I will be with my brother Greg, his wife Karen and their two awesome daughters, Han and Bex. And I will be stuffed with so much food. And get to go kayaking.

2. That I now own an iPhone, so I will be able to leave...

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I think every author gets one free pass in life. One time when he or she writes a novel and it all comes out like silk comes out of a worm (then again, I've never actually asked a silkworm how it feels to spin silk; maybe it's like the last hour of labor without drugs, on a continual cycle—what do I know with my cheap metaphors?) But the point is, if the adage holds true that everyone has one book in them then maybe it makes sense that everyone has one book that flies out like diarrhea...

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I think every author gets one free pass in life. One time when he or she writes a novel and it all comes out like silk comes out of a worm (then again, I've never actually asked a silk worm how it feels to spin silk; maybe it's like the last hour of labor without drugs, on a continual cycle—what do I know with my cheap metaphors?) But the point is, if the adage holds true that everyone has one book in them then maybe it makes sense that everyone has one book that flies out like diarrhea...

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Here is why I loved the movie Twilight.

I am old. Not old as in Edward-Cullen old. Or even old as in grandmother-that-Bella-dreams-herself-as-in-the-opening-scenes-of New Moon old. I'll be 40 next year, and 40 is the new 2o and yadda yadda, but as far as my readers are concerned, and my own kids, I'm old. But even so, I still love to feel that crazy exhilarating pitter-pat in my chest/stomach/heart region that an amazing love story, or really, any moving story, can bring on. The thing with...

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No publishing news today. Just political rants. But can I say t-minus one day until New Moon???

Okay, so I hate to give Ann Coulter any extra ink because I'm pretty much convinced that her insanely provocative columns are all just for show. That deep down she's apolitical and über-ambitious and has figured out that if you're a skinny blonde who screams Conservative, you can get pretty rich.

But the latest column, or more to the point, the 500 plus mostly positive comments, gives me pause.

Coulte...

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