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I call this a Christmas Cookie, but of course, it is not yet Christmas and of course it is not my present to you all!

My present to you all is a short story called Nick's First Word and I have sent it off to my web designer, so it should be up some time between now and Christmas, and I hope you will enjoy it! But this is not that story.

Since I put up the first chapter last month on this day, it has become Official Cookie Day, and thus you are due a cookie.

I chose this bit of The Demon's...

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Sadly, I am not talking about movie pirates of the Errol-Flynn-Johnny-Depp-you-can-buckle-my-swash-any-day-if-you-know-what-I'm-saying variety, or historical pirates of the Grainne the Irish queen of the seas type, otherwise known for bonding with Queen Elizabeth and delivering the immortal break-up line: 'Honey, back from the war already? So many things have happened since you were away! Like, I divorced you. And, this is my castle now!' Nor am I talking about mermaids who take to a life of ...

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'Sarah!' I hear you cry. 'Where are the publishing posts of yore, so informative and yet so hilarious?' 'No,' you actually cry. 'We really didn't miss them. You don't actually know that m-'

I am GLAD YOU ASKED.

I have been told by Some People (and by that I mean Justine 'Don't Spoil Me! Why Are You Spoiling Me? QUIT SPOILING ME OR I WILL USE MY AUSTRALIAN KUNG FU' Larbalestier) that sometimes when I talk about books and movies and television shows, I tend to spoil them for people by means of ge...

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I thought it would be appropriate to give away my November book on Thanksgiving. Now, of course, to me Thanksgiving is a strange and exotic thing, like 'cheerleaders' and 'prom.' As a child, it pretty much just seemed like something made up for the movies.

As a grown-up, I have celebrated Thanksgiving twice, and I enjoyed it very much both times. There is a whole pile of delicious food, you guys. There is DERBY PIE.

What is Derby pie, you may well ask? I will tell you. It is chocolate chip cook...

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I promised to put up the most excellent questions I was asked on tour, and so more than a month later I redeem this promise!

Some of them I answered on tour: some of them I did not, because a) they had spoilers in the answers, b) I am not all that bright and misunderstood the questions and c) I am not all that bright and waffled strangely instead of answering because I could not come up with the Answer People Deserved to Hear.

Q: Will (Names of the People Who Die in The Demon's Lexicon Redacted...

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It occurs to me that I have not talked much lately of the many, many books I have been reading. So I thought I could do some Brief Summaries in my own particular way, and thus perhaps both entertain and tell you all about books I have enjoyed!

I have been reading a lot of romance novels lately, as part of my quest to find books about relationships which I really really love. And I have been successful! In fact, I have found so many romance novels I love that should my career collapse in a teen...

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Happy November, oh internet of my heart. I have many exciting things to tell you.

The first and most important is a very happy thing. On Friday I went onto twitter, where I am www.twitter.com/sarahreesbrenna, as an oppressive twitter system denies me my last, delicious 'n.' And I saw people were congratulating me.

Since I had not even managed to get dressed for the day and was indeed cocooned in a fuzzy blanket, this struck me as odd.

When someone told me that The Demon's Lexicon had been nomi...

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'That Sarah,' you may well be saying to each other. 'Gallivanting off to Mexico, never a thought for her solemn promise to give away a book a month in 2009.'

But I always keep my promises, and here is my post about my October Book.

It is Liar by Justine Larbalestier.

Now, Liar is a hard book to talk about, because it is an important book not to spoil. I don't just mean it's important not to spoil the ending - spoiling the ending of any book is often considered a bad move. It's important not to...

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So, my dear livejournal, it has been a while, since I have been on tour! But now I will tell you all about my touring adventures.

So, I was extremely nervous about touring with Scott Westerfeld, as he has written several millionty awesome and much-feted books. These nerves did not cease when I popped off the plane in LA, and Scott showed me an awesome slideshow of the illustrations from his book, which as you can see from this book trailer are kind of the definition of awesome.

SARAH: Oh oh my ...

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Of late I have been doing much racing all over the world, and have not been blogging as I should!

Notable among my experiences in Japan was visiting with my publisher, where my lovely Japanese editor and I discussed Jamie being cute on the cover of the sequel, she showed me the fabulous posters made of the Japanese Cover of Amazing and she said Hiromu Arakawa liked my book! (I can now die happy.)

On my return from Japan, I found I had locked myself out of my own house. Since my housemates Jenne...

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