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ai ling and chen yong portrait

*ai ling and chen yong by phoenix lu.

i'm afraid i couldn't resist. after i saw the

amazing portrait that phoenix lu made of silver

phoenix and zhong ye, i knew i had to commission

another portrait of ai ling and chen yong together.

so here they are.

and i love it as much as the other!

again, i'll be making postcards with this and giving
them out as swag closer to Fury of the Phoenix release date
along with the other portrait! i just love giving out lovely
book related freebies, it makes me very...

surf's up, greenwillow authors!

i'm sick as a dog and on antibiotic horse pills to boot!

(i'm a Big Whiny Baby when i'm sick. =)

but things that make me feel better :

1. working on Secret Project of World Domination.

2. reading gail carriger's Blameless.

3. seeing the fotos of megan teaching me how to

"surf" for the first time over at the greenwillow blog.

i miss my author friend!

i'm afloat

hello gentle readers!

i've been waiting on my copyedits and

it feels exactly like being forced away from

a lover. i compared just beginning a novel

like getting to know a new crush. but now

that i've revised Fury of the Phoenix a good

3.5 times with my editor, i'm much more familiar–

at the point where i can choose a certain word

choice i used to search the doc and jump to the

part of the story i want to be at.

this familiarity is comforting, and one needs to
work up to it as with any love...

time travel, fairy tales and immortals, oh my!

hello dear readers! congrats to jay eckert

on winning the monster comic con giveaway.

thanks to all who entered. and today, is another

Thank Goodness It's Free Books Monday day!

i'm giving away three great young adult reads,

including two arcs from my own publisher,

greenwillow books. i enjoyed all of them and i

know you will too!

Sailing aboard her father's trade ship is all seventeen-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a girl of society in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set...

neither here nor there

*all dressed up with somewhere to go! =D

hello my lovely blog readers!!

i turn 37 today!! i love the odd number years,
because i love odd numbers in general. but
i've been mooching up the birthday loving all over
the internets rather shamelessly. i joke that i have
Summer Birthday Complex. you know. when you get
your lockers decorated on your birthday and balloons
and presents from your bff? me? everyone was gone on
august 29th every summer! no cupcakes to pass out,
no decorated lockers, no love notes ...

a concert at noon

i was able to go to a free concert and panel

on chinese music, then and now, at lunchtime

today. i wasn't quite sure what to expect, but enjoyed

myself so much! i never did learn a musical instrument

and know nothing about music in general, but i'm

always humming and singing (not well, either =) just

like my mom does and just like sweet pea seems to.

the venue was packed and i had great seats in the third
row. however, not the best spot to take fotos, so sorry
for all the giant heads in the...

silver phoenix and zhong ye portrait

i commissioned this portrait from phoenix lu. =)

her digital art work is nothing less than stunning.

i cannot wait for you to read zhong ye and silver

phoenix's story in Fury of the Phoenix.

and YES! i am making postcards to give out as swag!!

just finishing up line edits and this commission

couldn't have arrived at a better time as i'm working

on making the sequel better. =DD



this week's links of interest:

*ai ling and bod owens (The Graveyard Book) are
battling for their lives at YA Fantasy...

tgifbm! monster comic-con give away!

okay faithful readers, here is the extravaganza give away

i've been promising for some time. ELEVEN BOOKS and winner

takes all. these are authors from my san diego comic-con

international YA angst panel as well as harland's Worldshaker,

at another mysterious galaxy event and signing i had moderated

this year. all copies are SIGNED with the exception of christopher

pike's Thirst. unfortunately, he didn't attend comic-con so missed

our YA angst panel. so, in no particular order…

*SIGNED copy of ...

my twelve hours at scbwi!

i drove up to los angeles to see my writing

friends at scbwi's annual conference this past

saturday. it was a 7am – 2am day. by the time

i came home, i was exhausted, my voice was hoarse,

but it was all worth it. i could divide this post in two,

but i won't, so you can experience in full effect, the

awesomeness of my day. =)

it started with a lunch date with gretchen and
mike at the bread bar. a must every time i'm at scbwi.
i simply love bread and i love their food!! gretchen
just sold Banish...

ai ling and chen yong by shuangwen

i commissioned a portrait of ai ling and

chen yong a while back from a digital artist,

shuangwen. she happens to be from guangxi,

the province that my mom is from! i couldn't

be happier with it and hope to make postcards

from them to pass out as swag in the future!

thanks especially to courtney (ANGELFIRE,

HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books, 2/15/2011)

for recommending shuangwen to me!

i'll be at the scbwi los angeles conference on saturday
only. eating mostly with friends. perhaps will...