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Soulmates and Young Love and Asthma, Oh My!

Welcome to the next stop on our DebsTour!!! Please welcome Cheryl Herbsman and her novel Breathing! Now, I haven't managed to get a hold of this one yet (it just hit bookstores this week!), but I want to read it so badly! Here's a little bit about Breathing:

What if the guy who took your breath away was the only one who could help you breathe?

Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels and working at the library. B

Swag and Brazil!

I have fun stuff!!! WINGS has sold Portuguese rights in the Brazilian territories!!! My book's going to be in Portuguese!!! Yay!! It was a nice lift at the end of a rather long week. :D

Also, I ordered a bunch of swag a while back from 2 Day Designs and they came delivered it to me last night! The decals I was expecting, the buttons with my US cover on them I was expecting, but they also surprised me with buttons with my UK cover on them and a T-shirt!!! Check it out!



I was so excited I put a deca

I've Fallen In Love!

I don't know how many of you guys know that one of the greatest passions in my life is musical theatre. I grew up doing theatre, I did it in high school and college, and have been everything from in the chorus, to playing Eliza in My Fair Lady, Ado Annie in Oklahoma, dancing as Cherry in Paint Your Wagon, and directing Oklahoma (again) a few years ago. I have often wondered if I shouldn't have gone to New York City to try out for Broadway instead of going to college; I'm that serious about it. I

The Edits Are In!!!!! (+ Tour schedule)

I TURNED IN MY EDITS YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!

*sigh of relief*

Edit are hard. Worth it about a million times over, but hard.

So here's what's coming up in the next couple of weeks as we ramp up for the release of WINGS!!

First, here's my tour schedule thus far. (These are just the basic locations; if you would like addresses and time, please click here to go to the calendar section of my website. You can click on any event to get the full details!)

May 5th- Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, Arizona

May 6th-

A Real Reader

I have to say, industry reviews are nice enough. Often online reviews are nicer. But nothing is nicer that a great review from a real, bonafide reader. I was lucky enough to get such a review last week and wanted to post it because it was so wonderful. It came on a kind of bad day and it put everything in perspective to me. It doesn't matter what cranky industry reviewers think. Ultimately, what matters is what readers think. I write for readers. To be quite frank, I don't expect to ever win a w

Noses, Boys, and Disasters, Oh My!

Yes, in fact, BlogTour2009 is back! It's been a while. Sarah Ockler (Author of the upcoming 20 Boy Summer from Little, Brown)was so kind as to happen to schedule me for very little blog touring while I've been working on my revisions. And she didn't even know when they were coming. Very serendipitous of her, don't you think?;)

So please welcome Utah's own Sydney Salter who I have met and actually had lunch with! Yay! Her book is entitled My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters.

I managed to get an

It's a Real Book!!!!!!

*This post contains graphic and gratuitous photographs of both jacketed and unjacketed books. Proceed at your own risk!*

;)

I got sample copies of WINGS yesterday!!!!

When the printers print their books, they generally send a few ahead so the publisher can see what the finished product is going to look like. The rest wend their way slowly to the US via (I read this somewhere????) a big boat. Yay!

Well, my samples got to Harper this week. Not all publishers share their samples with their authors (for

Almost Next-Month

We have a little tradition in our family. When something fun is coming up (usually for the kids for whom counting down days is very fun!) we will talk about how long is almost left. Like, "Your birthday is almost tomorrow," when it is two days till the birthday.

Well, today is a special day, because my book is coming out almost-next-month!!! I have so been looking forward to being able to casually tell people, "Oh yes, my book comes out next month," and as of tomorrow, I can!!!

Today also makes th

Underwear and Mules and Tattoos, Oh My!

Welcome back to blog tour! It's been a while, but we are back with the lovely, fabulous Neesha Meminger and her novel Shine Coconut Moon, winner of the Coolest Title Ever Award! Seriously, it makes me want to go out and eat coconut shrimp! I am really excited to read this book. Here is a bit about it!

Samar–a.k.a. Sam–is an Indian-American teenager whose mom has kept her away from her old-fashioned family. It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a demanding boyfriend. But t

It Has Been a Stellar Week!!

I have had a lovely week. Busy--thus not posting in five days, but lovely nonetheless.

On Monday night, my husband was looking at houses online (we're moving to Phoenix this summer.) We like to look early. It's fun! I LOVE house shopping. If possible, I like to drag the process out for months. And he found a really great, just-listed house that seriously hits every point on our must-haves list and most of our optional-but-we-would-really-like-to-have list. We have spent the last four days droolin