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Woo Hoo, WARP SPEED! Plus, a Bad Puppy, a Parade, and a Bug with a Human Head!!!

Squeeee!!! WARP SPEED has been named a TOP SHELF book by VOYA (Voices of Youth Advocates)!



WARP SPEED's also been named to the YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Best Fiction for Young Adults list!!!



Want to know more about the book? Why, I just happen to have this video clip of me speaking Klingon and describing it . . .


Here's another video about the book, and why I wrote it . . .


And here's more! Two anthologies that I've contributed to, DEAR BULLY and GEEKTASTIC have made the YALSA 2012 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list!

So, of course, the best way to celebrate this cool news was to go to Los Angeles's Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown . . .



Oops. I didn't have room to add this on my last blog, but after our signing at Apostrophe Books last week, we explored the Belmont Shores shopping district where indie bookstore is located. We stumbled across a Willy Wonka-worthy candy store called Powell's Sweet Shoppe. And sure enough! Willy Wonka, the movie, was playing . . .





Nearby was Luna where they had lots of handmade jewelry and crafts and stuff. I was quite taken with the bugs . . .



That's because recently there was a giant bug with a human head in our house, and I had to relocate it across the street. So, I decided to get a bug in honor of the other bug. I named him "Lowell," after the elementary school . . .



The last place we stopped at before heading home was a wonderful bakery . . .



I spent a long time trying to decide what to get, and finally settled on a gingerbread man. However, when I got home, I left it on my desk and when I returned, it was GONE!!!! I'm not naming names, but I have a suspect in mind . . .



I suppose I should feel good about the cookie gone missing. It could have been worse. Here are some things Puppy had done in the past . . .




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Upcoming Events . . .

In February, I'll be in Austin, TX for the SCBWI Regional Conference and I'll also be in Vancouver for the Serendipity Conference . . .



Then in March, you can find me here . . .



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The Essential Apostrophe and Gung Hei Fat Choy!!!

Some apostrophes are unnecessary, like these from the blog Apostrophe Abuse . . .



However, other Apostrophes are absolutely, positively, totally, totally necessary . . . .



That's right. I'm talking about that wonderful indie store Apostrophe Books in Long Beach, CA. I was there last year when WARP SPEED launched, and was back recently . . .



All the author/illustrators who spoke at Lowell Elementary signed at the store the next day . . .



And what a marvelous bookstore it is!!! There's something about a bookstore. You walk in and instantly feel good. Bookstore therapy. Yes, that's what is is.



Oh sure, the internet is all fine and dandy. In fact, for some of us, we use it Waaaaaay Tooooo Much and need help discipling ourselves. And yes, there are e-books.

However, there's nothing like buying a book, a real book, one to have and to hold, in sickness and in heath, from this day forward until death do you part (or something like that.)

Here are a few books of mine that I am wedded to . . .



I wrote a book called GOOD LUCK, IVY, about a Chinese American Girl growing up in San Francisco. In the story, she's a really good gymnast because I was a . . . really bad gymnast. Anyway, here's Ivy and me . . .



Recently I heard from the fabulous Berkeley Book Worms from Berkeley Elementary in Westwood, NJ. They just started their book club and chose GOOD LUCK, IVY as their first pick to help celebrate Chinese New Year!!!



Gung hei fat choy -- Happy Chinese New Year to the Berkeley Book Worms, and everyone who is Chinese, and to everyone who isn't Chinese, and anyone I may have left out!!!


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Want to check out Lisa's NEW AND IMPROVED website? SImply CLICK HERE.

Interested in having Lisa speak at your school, library or conference? CLICK HERE for more information.

Upcoming Events . . .

This Sunday, January, 29, 2012, I'll be at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse along with Susan Patron and other wonderful authors. CLICK HERE for more information.


In February, I'll be in Austin, TX for the SCBWI Regional Conference and I'll also be in Vancouver for the Serendipity Conference . . .



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Getting Rowdy in the Lowell Library + The Secrets of the Teacher's Lounge

My first school visit of the new year was at Lowell Elementary in Long Beach, CA . . .



I taught a workshop there last year, and must not have been too weird because they invited me back!



Before the evening event, the authors/illustrators rendezvoused in the teacher's lounge . . .



When I was a kid, I always wanted to know what the teacher's lounge looked like and what went on in that mysterious room . . .



So it was a thrill to pass through the doors and into the forbidden zone. I wasn't disappointed . . .



Off to the side of the main room (above) was another secret room where the cake was kept. So now you know! Behind those closed doors, teachers (and visiting authors and illustrators) lounge around and eat cake!!!



Apres cake, it was time to go onstage and be introduced. Here's who else was there. It's always fun to see Fancy Nancy illustrator, Robin Priess Glasser. However, one of us felt underdressed . . .



Robin has to coolest crown. Last time we saw each other, she hung out with Peepy . . .



Then it was time to break into our workshop groups. My "How to Write a Story" was held in the library . . .



Pssst . . . don't tell the librarian, but I stood on the chair so that everyone could see me . . .



I gave my group some tough, but fun, writing assignments. Luckily, Peepy was there if anyone needed help . . .




(Did you notice the girl with the pink hair? She matches the cover of ABSOLUTELY MAYBE!)

The kids (and adults) came up with such fabulous stories, we had to celebrate!! I told them, this is the one and only time you can stand on a chair in the library and shout . . .



We capped off the evening with a book signing . . .





When we got back to our hotel, we saw one of these intriguing signs in the elevator . . .



Yes! You must be psychic -- it was the last sign.

So we went to the front desk and asked to see the Official Elevator Inspection Permit. But alas, the general manager was not on duty. Oh well. Next time.

Next Blog: Guess who had a book signing at Apostrophe Books????





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Disclaimer: No proofreaders were harmed (or even used) in the creation of this blog.

Upcoming Events . . .

Next week I'll be at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse along with Susan Patron and other wonderful authors. CLICK HERE for more information.


In February, I'll be in Austin, TX for the SCBWI Regional Conference, then in Vancouver for this . . .


Want to check out Lisa's NEW AND IMPROVED website? SImply CLICK HERE.

Interested in having Lisa speak at your school, library or conference? CLICK HERE for more information.

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Colin Firth, Craig Ferguson, and Me

It is possible that I am inordinately fond of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.



It is possible that some incredibly kind people are aware of this and have sent him to my office.



So, when Teen told me about Colin (we are on a first name basis) being on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show, it is possible that I started screaming.



Being a Craig (we are on a first name basis) fan, I have been to his show in the past. You may have seen me. I was the one in the audience who was waving.

The first time, the special guest was Robin Williams, and the second time it was Neil Patrick Harris . . .



Because of my special fan status, and other things, I was awarded (I like to think that there was a committee of judges who decided this) priority access to the show . . .



They wanted me there so badly, I was sent several follow-up emails to insure my presence . . .



Not wanting to make a big deal about seeing COLIN FIRTH and CRAIG FERGUSON TOGETHER and IN PERSON, I mostly kept this information to myself and my Facebook and Twitter followers, plus the people in the 15 Items or Less line at the grocery store, and some strangers who thought I was harassing them.



Before the show, we went to The Farmers Market, which is next to CBS, for lunch, and to say "hello!" to Ivy Ling at the American Girl Place. I wrote GOOD LUCK, IVY and recently they made a mini version of the doll and book!



The line for the show was short. Maybe because we got there an hour and a half early.



It was odd, they were even advertising free tickets . . .



Soon enough, the line grew and grew and grew and even people who had tickets were turned away . . .




However, I had nothing to fear because of my super special priority access tickets. So I used the time to plot, er, wonder, how to make a good impression on Colin . . .



While we were in line, gameshow contestants marched past us . . .



We weren't allowed to bring phones or cameras into the studio, however, few people know this about me . . . I am a semi-professional artist. Here's what happened, as best as I can recall . . .

Everyone had to go through security, yes, even me . . .



I was in the second row, middle. However, a BIG man with a BIG head sat in front of me . . .



Therefore, I was forced to invade the personal space of the stranger seated to my right, so I could get a good view of COLIN and CRAIG . . .



They had to stop the show, when Colin and I made significant eye contact and he just had to know who I was, and he wanted to meet me right way!!!! Or at least, that's what maybe, possibly happened, or not. It's all sort of fuzzy now . . .



Of course, Peepy has an entirely different account of what happened. She says that Craig dedicated the monologue to her . . .



And that Colin was taken aback by her beauty and only had eyes for her . . .



But whatever happened, this much is true -- the accents (English = Colin, Scottish = Craig) were incredible, and Colin was so wonderful and witty!!!

If you missed the show, you can see it HERE.


(Thanks to Marylin Scott-Waters for capturing this completely candid and true photo of Colin and me.)

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Disclaimer: No proofreaders were harmed (or even used) in the creation of this blog.

Want to check out Lisa's NEW AND IMPROVED website? SImply CLICK HERE.

Interested in having Lisa speak at your school, library or conference? CLICK HERE for more information.

Upcoming Events . . .

Live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

Later this month, I'll be at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse. CLICK HERE for more information.


In February, I'll be in Austin, TX for the SCBWI Regional Conference, then in Vancouver for this . . .


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Taming My Internet Addiction

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a writer in possession of a good computer cannot get any work done due to well-honed procrastination techniques. (My apologies to Jane Austen.)



I have this love/hate relationship with the internet. I love it, but I hate it, but I love it. That's because it's SOOOOOOO hard to tear myself away from it and get any writing done. At least, that's how it was. Then I discovered FREEDOM. (Oh, man. This is sounding like a cheesy commercial, but I swear, it's all true!)



In the past eight years and three months, I've had ten novels published, plus numerous short stories, essays and articles. "How can you do all this when you, Lisa Yee, are the Queen of procrastination and/or the inter webs?" you ask, or I ask, or someone else asks.



Simple. I use cheap tricks, threats and what REAL SIMPLE describes as . . .


If you are anything like me, when it comes to the internet, you have no self-control.



But wait! Have no fear -- FREEDOM works for both Macs and PCs. This is from the official website . . .



Via the internet (yes, irony!), I tracked down the creator of FREEDOM, Fred Stutzman . . .



Then, I peppered him with questions. Here's what he had to say . . .

LISA: I ADORE Freedom. Being an internet junkie, it allows me to write without having to resort to a typewriter. Fred, do you have internet addiction problems or are you just empathic to those of us who have lack of control?



FRED: I'll put it this way - I research social network sites for a living. There's very much a blurring between what constitutes work and what constitutes hours of mindless clicking of friends' pictures. I don't know if I'm addicted but I do know that this technology helps make those lines a little clearer.

LISA: Um . . .



LISA: You do know that authors love you, right? When you were musing about, did you have writers in mind when creating Freedom?

FRED: I have been told this! In my perfect world, I get to spend most of my day writing, so I like to think I identify with writers. My reality - after meetings, service, etc. get subtracted - actually leaves very little time for writing, so I have to be efficient in that time. Freedom is a software for people who need to concentrate on long-form tasks, where concentration is essential. I think this appeals to writers.



LISA: I noticed that you are a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon, graduated from North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, and have a BA in Economics, and have a graduate certificate in survey research (quantitative methodology) for Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences. So then, what's your favorite breakfast cereal, and why?

FRED: All that education means I can locate my breakfast cereal in a values-sensitive interdisciplinary framework when studying it and designing technology to support it. Also: Granola.

LISA: I made this homemade granola just for you, Fred! (Okay, so maybe I didn't make it, but I would have if I had superior granola skills.)



LISA: Can you tell us how many people are using Freedom? (Not at this very moment, but overall. Ironically, those using Freedom right now would not be able to read this.)

FRED: Over 300,000 have downloaded the trial!



LISA: Did you have any idea it would take off like it did?

FRED: No, it was a surprise. But I knew when I used it for the first time I was on to something. It was if I had transformed my $2,500 computer into a typewriter, but that was exactly what I needed.

LISA: Me, too!



LISA: You have another program called ANTI-SOCIAL, that locks out users from their social media sites. Is this A) as popular as Freedom, B) less popular than Freedom, C) equally as popular as Freedom, or D) Other?

FRED: By volume it is less popular (I don't have a Windows version yet), but I think the idea really appeals to people. I actually use Anti-Social and Freedom equally…Anti-Social is nice when I am doing research.



LISA to Readers: Do you find this adorable?



WELL, STOP IT and GET BACK TO WORK!!! (After you finish this blog, of course.)

LISA to Fred: And finally, is there an internet tool that hasn't been invented yet, that would help you with your life? If so, what would that be?

FRED: Espresso by email? Sorry, I haven't had lunch yet, creativity is sapped.

LISA:






Are you interested in FREEDOM? You can test drive it for FREE or own it for just 10 bucks by CLICKING HERE. It's the best writing investment I've ever made.

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Live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

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CLICK HERE to find out about Lisa's newest book, WARP SPEED!!!

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Terrific Teachers and Fabulous "FakeBook" Pages

I love hearing from teachers. My parents were teachers. My mother taught elementary school and my father taught high school. Both are now retired from Los Angeles Unified School District . . .



I always have a teacher or librarian in my books because I believe that when you are in school, one great adult can have a lasting impact on your life. My seventh grade teacher Mr. Glick is featured in STANFORD WONG FLUNKS BIG-TIME. He scared the heebie jeebies out of his students, and they loved him for that . . .



I used to be terrified of him, and still am a little, however we are now friends. Last year Mr. Glick even visited my house and scared the heebie jeebies out of me and Son . . .





Then there's Mrs. Carlson, who taught Son when he was in elementary school. She was kind enough to let me borrow her name for the Bobby Ellis-Chan books about a fourth grader. Here's "Mrs. Carlson" as she appears in the novels and what she looks like in real life . . .



I am always so impressed by the creative ways teachers have come up to teach my books. Here's Mr. Lee and some of the projects his student shared with me and Puppy . . .



One teacher even brought Rover, Bobby's goldfish, into the classroom . . .



So when I heard from Lisa Cromley who teaches 6th grade at Westtown School in West Chester, PA I was totally intrigued. Here's what she wrote:

"My students are big fans of Millicient Min and Stanford Wong. To capture plot, character, setting and other details from their summer reading books, students created FakeBook pages that focused on the timeline and information."

Here are some of their FakeBook pages . . .






I don't have room to show all the terrific FakeBook pages, however I can show you Ms. Cromley's amazing students . . .



Speaking school, I now have a resource page on my NEW AND IMPROVED website for teachers and librarians!"



NEXT BLOG: How to stop procrastinating and start writing.

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Live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

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Anatomy of My Website

We can all exhale. I did not destroy the internet!

Here's my old website that I created BY MYSELF on iWeb, which is going away. That is, both my old website and iWeb are going away.



There were actual 147-ish other pages, but I decided not to show them all because . . . well, because. Plus they scrolled down, but I decided not to show that because I couldn't figure out how to take a photo of that.

So then, when I found out that iWeb was disappearing/no longer being supported by Apple, I realized I'd have to 1) pay someone to do my website, or 2) teach myself how to create a new one ALL BY MYSELF using a different program.

This alarmed several people, plus anyone using the internet, since I've had problems in the past . . .


Since then, I've learned to slow down and (sort of) read directions. "How hard could it be?" I asked me. I decided to approach it scientifically and strategically plotted out even the most minor details . . .



Needless to say, it was harder than I thought it would be . . .



That's probably because I am self-taught. (Translation: I couldn't get anyone to do my website for me for free.) During the process, I decided to redesign the whole thing, rewrite it, and add new and exciting photos, plus make some sections scratch 'n' sniff.


(Scratch above to smell computer scent.)

It was actually not too hard, this web design business, and I liked that it was drag and drop. Here's what the Weebly icons look like . ..



All in all, it took me about ten months to create the site. (Nine months, three weeks and two days to whine about how long it would take, plus about five days to actually do it.)

Here's Neil Patrick Harris to help unveil the final result!!!!



(Well, here are screen grabs of the banners.)



















And if you're feeling really high-tech-y CLICK HERE GO THE NEW SITE I CREATED ALL BY MYSELF WITHOUT BRINGING DOWN THE ENTIRE INTERWEBS!!!!!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE AMAZING NEW WEBSITE

But, oh. I posted the site on Facebook, emailed my publisher, and Tweeted, and then it went down. I was soooooo embarrassed. So I posted that it no longer worked, emailed my publisher again, apologizing, and Tweeted the demise of the site.

Only to find out there's this thing called a cache -- not to be confused a sachet . . .


Oh! Oh! Speaking of sachet, I got LIBRARY SCENTED PERFUME!!!!! It REALLY smells like the library, all warm, musty, bookish . . .

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Oops. I digressed. Where were we? That right, caches. Cache. Um, apparently the new site was always there, I just hadn't cleared out my cache in a billion years.



That was sort of embarrassing. Hope your 2012 is going great so far! Mine is. I got ticket to this . . .




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Psssst . . . live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

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CLICK HERE to find out about Lisa's newest book, WARP SPEED!!!

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The Cybils, The Dreamers & Me

Wooo hooo!!! It was a wonderful start of the New Year when I heard about WARP SPEED (via a Tweet from Cheryl Klein) being a finalist for the Cybils!!! I'm in there with lots of good company -- CLICK HERE to see the short list.



On the last day of the year, I was mentioned, along with Kim Jong Il and
Dan Santat in the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy . . .



Luckily, Dan and I, along with other Asian Americans, were mentioned in the Children's Literature section, and not in the recently-decesed-dictator-with-odd-hair category . . .


(Um, that's Dan on the left and me in the middle.)


Hey there! In other good news, look who's our new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature . . .



(The Ambassador is Walter Dean Myers, not Peepy. But don't tell her that. She's already getting measured for a sash and crown.)

The other day I went to Nucleus . . .



Oops, not that Nucleus. This Nucleus . . .



It was the last hour of the Jim Henson Tribute Exhibit at Nucleus Gallery . . .



Here's some of what we saw . . .





When I used to live in Florida, Jim Henson was a neighbor and a close personal friend. Well, he lived within walking distance and even if he had no idea who I was, I certainly knew who he was. I'd make it a point to walk past his house and linger (as opposed to stalk), in hopes that he'd come out and want to talk to me. Alas, it never happened, but still, I like to imagine that it did.


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Live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

Disclaimer: No proofreaders were harmed (or even used) in the creation of this blog.

CLICK HERE to find out about Lisa's newest book, WARP SPEED!!!

Interested in having Lisa speak at your school, library or conference? CLICK HERE for more information.

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Rose Parade Peep . . . 2012 Edition

Once a year, Peepy and I stay up late and to cheer on the


In the past, we've walked the route where the floats line up on New Year's Eve. However this year, the Rose Parade is on Monday, January 2nd. Why? Because it's never on a Sunday.

Here's the Tournament of Roses headquarters . . .



Other people had the same plan as we did and wanted to see the floats up close, early . . .



Here's some of what we saw . . .



Because of tree branches and wires overhead, the taller floats are built and transported in pieces and put together at the site . . .



Peepy was quite taken with the Official Motor Scooters and caught a ride on one . . .



Speaking of rides, here's a peek at where the driver sits on one of the floats . . .



Look! It's our hometown float -- South Pasadena!!!



Yes, those are POTATOES . . .



So nice to see them, especially because there was a potato crisis. Just check out this Facebook post . . .



Luckily, the community rallied around the Great Potato Shortage of South Pasadena and the float was completed!

Can you find Peepy?



More floats ahead!!!



And LOOK -- it's the Rose Parade Queen . . .



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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Live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

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CLICK HERE to find out about Lisa's newest book, WARP SPEED!!!

Interested in having Lisa speak at your school, library or conference? CLICK HERE for more information.

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Last Year's News and Happy 2012!!!!

PHEW!

I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted. 2011 was a real whirlwind year. Here are some blog-lights (that's highlights, only in blog speak) . . .

JANUARY began with the announcement of American Girl's 2011 Girl of the Year . . . written by Moi!!!


I finally got to blog about how the book was written and all the research, including finding out about the endangered monk seals and learning to surf . . .





There was author-esque dancing in San Diego at the American Library Association conference, plus literary It Guy Neil Gaiman, and others, got to meet Peepy . . .



FEBRUARY marked the start of my American Girl Book Tour which began in Los Angeles, and included New York where I also squeezed in a Scholastic video interview . . .



We also went to Atlanta and Peepy was pampered in Dallas . . .



Then it was off to Minnesota and Chicago . . .



MARCH was the book launch party for WARP SPEED and BOBBY THE BRAVE (SOMETIMES) . . .



I also flew to Kauai for a week to help spread the word about the endangered Hawaiian monk seals, like those in Kanani's stories. The trip was, um, er, strictly business, of course . . .

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Also blogged in March was KANANI in Boston. While there I got to see The Blue Bunny bookstore, Peepy got to meet new fans, and later I was recused by my posse . . .





APRIL is always the Annual Summit. That's where my agent and I go to Disneyland for highly important, very official, business meetings and whatnots . . .



I also wrote about wrote about Beverly Cleary for the Huffington Post . . .



. . . and we shot our WARP SPEED book trailer . . .
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MAY was busy with the Los Angeles Times Book Festival and all that excitement, plus school visits and Kevin Bacon-ish author/illustrator friends . . .



JUNE saw the debut of a new author named Ransom Riggs, also it was the month of BookExpo America in New York where, in addition to seeing great authors/illustrators I got to hang out with the most marvelous Jeannie Birdsall and my editors Cheryl Klein and Arthur Levine. I also signed lots and lots of Kanani books . . .



JULY was my very first Comic Con in San Diego. I loved the parties and the drama of it all . . .


Plus, my Klingon came in handy . . .


AUGUST is when the annual SCBWI Summer Conference takes place. It's illuminating to talk to super famous authors like Judy Blume and Richard Peck, even if they do argue over who gets to hold Peepy . . .



SEPTEMBER was super packed. We were in New York at Scholastic headquarters, and San Luis Obispo, and Louisville, KY, and Tampa, FL. Plus, we blogged about Washington, DC and the National Book Festival where we were Wonderstruck by all the literary stars, including HUGO's Brian Selznick and his shoes . . .



Heading toward, OCTOBER, we continued our blogs about the National Book Festival, this time reporting on Lauren Myracle's arrest and other incidents . . .



In OCTOBER we traveled to Florida for FAME and also to headed to Alabama for some down home folk art and fun . . .



NOVEMBER was filled with school visits and we got to speak at this awesome library . . .



DECEMBER was all bloggy with photos and such the American Girl 25th Birthday cruise to Caribbean. Hey, it's hard work, but someone has to do it!



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!


Live in or near Long Beach, CA (or have access to a car, train, bus or plane)? Then come see me at Apostrophe Books on January 21, 2012. I'll be there from noon to 1:30 p.m.!

Disclaimer: No proofreaders were harmed (or even used) in the creation of this blog.

CLICK HERE to find out about Lisa's newest book, WARP SPEED!!!

Interested in having Lisa speak at your school, library or conference? CLICK HERE for more information.

Lisa Yee








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