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Vegas Baby:)

Today in the Las Vegas Review Journal, they had a list of movies, CD's and books coming out. OMG, me and Stephen King, my hero, separated by a mere semi-colon. Swoon! Check it out:

Books:
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson: In the conclusion to the best-selling Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander will stand trial for three murders if she recovers from a bullet wound to the head that has left her in critical condition. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist stands by her as she recove...

Official Release Day!

The Gardener is out today!  I blogged over at MacMillan kids  http://mackids.squarespace.com/

I honestly thought the 25th was Thursday. Sheesh. I just figured it out when I was paying a bill online... 

Isn't this why we do it?

I got a letter today from a high school teacher in the Twin Cities. Here's an excerpt from her letter, and the punctuation is all hers:



I have a tough crowd of high school students. They hate to read, mainly because most of them have a reading disability. Others hate to sit still;some of them have emotional or behavior issues. But all of them-ALL OF THEM-became entranced in your book The Compound. In fact, I even had to count my copies because they would try to sneak them home to READ AHEAD! I...

On rocks and pizzas...

When we first moved into our house last year, our yard was full of rocks that looked like this:




My husband spent several weeks putting them all into a pile. And then he took all the rocks and made this:




And today was the first day we fired up the pizza oven.



A little trial and error to get the pizza off the wooden peel:




And here's the first one:



It is only a half because the other half broke off. But it was delicious. And here's the next one:




Yeah, it got in the ashes a little. But it was delicious...

How to Write a Novel in Two ( or less) Days

Ha! You totally looked! I mean, you know it's impossible to write a novel in two ( or less) days, but a part of you just couldn't resist reading this, just in case there might be a way to do it.
And honestly, I feel like I am writing a novel in such a short time. Beginning with The Gardener, which was the second book of my contract for The Compound, I have had to submit a synopsis and sample chapters to get a book approved or sold, before I write the book. So in effect, yes, I am writing a nov...

Bookpage Review for The Gardener

The Gardener comes out a week from today. I've been on pins and needles waiting for the first reviews to trickle in and here's a great one from Bookpage Magazine.

http://www.bookpage.com/books.php?id=10013284

The Exquisite Corpse

Over at the group blog One Potato Ten, we are going to play a game of Exquisite Corpse for this upcoming cycle. Here is part of Christy Hale's post from today explaining the game:

 

The Surrealists embraced collaboration and disrupted rationality. In 1925 they played an old parlor game called Consequences, where each player wrote on a piece of paper then folded it over to conceal most of the writing, and passed the paper along to the next player. Each contribution grew from the previous one...

Review of The Gardener in The Oregonian

Yay! A very nice mention of The Gardener and terihall   's The Line in The Oregonian, written by aprilhenry  


http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2010/05/young_adult_fiction_reviews_re.html

Two more reads...

 

I went to Houston for school visits this week, and took two ARC's from PLA to read. On the trip there, I read The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson.




Here's some of the back cover:

Bartholomew Fortuno, the world's thinnest man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than PT Barnum to work at his spectacular American Museum- a  modern marvel of macabre displays and live-performances by Barnum's cast of freaks and oddities--Fortuno has reached the...

Day 6 Do the Write Thing for Nashville

http://dothewritethingfornashville.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-6-item-5.html


A signed copy of The Gardener and a picture book critique. Go bid:)