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AuthorMix

Today is a new episode of AuthorMix! It's a sweet little webshow that author Katie Alender (Bad Girls Don't Die) put together where she got authors Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures), Melissa de la Cruz (Bluebloods) and Me to get together and talk shop and stuff. It was great fun. You can win signed books and cool stuff over at the AuthorMix site. And new episodes are uploaded every Tuesday! So fun!

Here is this weeks episode, where we talk about critique partners.

This last week: a whirlwind!

My dear friends!

This last week of July has been a bonanza of fun! merriment! joy! good stories! fun friends! and yeah-ness!

First: Comic Con! I only dipped in and out for a quick visit. I was there with the always lovely and fantastic Melissa Auf der Maur as she was signing at Century Guild her beautiful original poster by Lee Moyer!

As always, I had so much fun at comic con seeing all my dear comics peeps. This years fun included excellent hang out time with Bill Willingham, Shelly Bond, ...

Live Video Chat 7/20 6 PM EST/ 9 PST at Goodreads (with me!)

Hello my fine and delightful friends!

On July 20th at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST I am so pleased to announcd that I will be doing a live video chat with Goodreads I will be talking about anything! everything! You can catch the live stream here

This of course is all leading up to the release of my two new books this August 1st!  (TWO!)

My new YA Novel ROSE SEES RED  (scholastic press)  - Set in New York in the 1980s, this story of two ballet dancers (one American, one Russian) recounts the...

Fairy Story

Last week, I went to a reading at Skylight Books.  There was a guy there who had pointy ears.  Like Spock.  Or an Elf.  I tweeted about it.

I posted  cseaskull : There is a boy at @skylightbooks who has actual ears like Spock! He is either Vulcan or Elf! Must investigate! 8:30pm, Jul 02 from Echofon

The fabulous and fantastico Tod Goldberg tweeted me back this:

todgoldberg: @cecilseaskull You realize that this sounds a lot like fan fiction, right? 8:56pm, Jul 02 from Web

I took this to be a...

Geektastic Tweet Chat Monday July 12th at 8 PM EST/ 5 PM PST

My dear friends!

For those of you who twitter!

To celebrate the paperback release of GEEKTASTIC, won't you join me and some of the other people who contributed to Geektastic (Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Libba Bray, Wendy Mass and Alvina Ling) for a tweetchat on Monday July 12th at 8 PM EST / 5 PM PST?   Use the hashtag #geektastic and come and hang out and be geeky!

xoxoxo

Darth Vader is My Daddy

I wrote this essay for Red Room about the Vader Project.

I was born the day I saw Star Wars, and Darth Vader made me. Sure, he's a jerk. And an emotional nightmare. And he's made some really unhealthy choices in his life. But he's my muse. And I do want to own his helmet.

By the way, here is that song I wrote about Star Wars called "Nerdy Girl" in case you want to download it and enjoy!

Five Chapters

I am so very delighted to announce that I have a new short story out this week on Five Chapters -which is an online literary magazine.  They publish a short story in five parts every week!  All their previous stories are archived there, so I encourage you to explore the site and read some deliciously great short fiction.

I am sharing this week with Alyson Hagy. Her story starts today.  It's called LUCK and you should read it immediately.  My story is called DEVIL IN THE DETAILS and it starts ...

Twin Book Launch / July 24th @ Skylight Books

Please come join me as I launch my two new books!

My new YA Novel / Rose Sees Red (scholastic press)

Set in New York in the 1980s, this story of two ballet dancers (one American, one Russian) recounts the unforgettable night they spend in the city, and celebrates the friendship they form despite their cultural and political differences.

And my first Picture Book / Grandma's Gloves (candlewick press)

Grandma is always on her knees in the dirt, with her gardening gloves on, talking to her roses...

The Lit Thing! June 16th at Skylight Books!

Come join us at the Lit Thing! Authors raving or ranting about a book.

June 16th, 7 PM Skylight Books

Geektastic Paperback. A giveaway!

Hello my friends.

Do you know what is coming so very soon? Geektastic. In paperback. It comes out June 10th. I just got author compies today. So I'm going to do a giveaway.

You can post in the comments or email me at misscecil (at) gmail (dot) com and tell me what the geekiest thing you did last month was. I will pick the geekiest one with a crack team of geekologists. And the geekiest thing done last month will win a paperback!

It's even got a glossary in the back in case you don't...