Cindy Pon's Blog, page 15
June 22, 2010
leafing through the pages…
a stack of books.
dogeared pages.
nose in a book.
creased spine.
the well worn pages of a treasured favorite.
the smell of a new book.
to judge a book by its cover.
to curl up with a book.
to flip the page.
yesterday morning, on a whim, i decided to do
an impromptu twitter and facebook poll asking :
with all the talk about ebooks, are YOU willing to
read ALL books/novels solely on an ereader?
yes or no?
unofficially (as in don't trust me to do the
counting at the presidential election =), we
had a total o...
June 21, 2010
tgifbm! Bleeding Violet & Brightly Woven!
you WANT these two debut novels. trust me.
they are both wonderful and very different
fantasy novels.
Love can be a dangerous thing….
Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna's tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the freak. So she runs away to Portero, Texas in search of a new home.
But Portero is a stranger town than Hanna expects. As she tries to make a place for...
June 16, 2010
how do you know?
i'm in between revisions again and more
than a little obsessed with Fury of the Phoenix.
it's a fantastic all-consuming a little maddening
feeling. i write in my head constantly, am thinking
of plot and scene and dialogue and character.
and god knows what's getting lost sometimes
due to The Hole in My Head. but i think i retain most
of it, and forget other mundane things in life like
laundry, brushing sweet pea's hair, making dinner
and other negligible things such as those. =) ha!
i had a...
June 8, 2010
the space between
i'm a little lost and useless. i need to give
myself mindless tasks to keep sane. =)
this is how it is between revisions. on sunday,
i was able to attend harperteen's Supernatural
Summer tour and four fellow YA authors there.
mysterious galaxy events are always so much fun!
*kimberly derting, me, kelley armstrong,
ellen schreiber, and kim harrison.
*the turn out was fantastic! people waited a few
hours to get their books signed.
*i've met kimberly before and it was a real pleasure
to meet the...
June 6, 2010
tgifbm! A Conspiracy of Kings & mwt interview!
other than le guin's earthsea series, this is one
of my favorites. A Conspiracy of Kings is a New York Times
Bestseller AND was also chosen by American Library Association's
Booklist as one of the Top Ten Fantasy/Science Fiction Novels for
Youth in 2010! i'm delighted to offer a signed copy for tgifbm!
i also have an impromptu interview with megan whalen
turner. these were questions i had posed to the authors
of the summer reading panel at mysterious galaxy a few
weeks back.
if you could live...
June 2, 2010
catch up!
okay. somebody spank me.
i've been so bad about blogging. but
you know why! Fury of the Phoenix sequel
revisions has turned me into a hoof stomping
revisions cave troll! i sent in round two to my
fantabulous editor. we're getting closer, but
i know there's still a lot of work to be done
before we send it out into the world.
i don't know what to do with myself now
that i'm waiting on my editor's comments.
any writer knows what it's like to be obsessively
immersed in the world and then to be...
May 26, 2010
swoon at your own risk by sydney salter
so happy to have sydney salter stop by on
our debs 2010 tour today!
Book Summary:
You'd think Polly Martin would have all the answers
when it comes to love—after all, her grandmother is
the famous syndicated advice columnist Miss Swoon.
But after a junior year full of dating disasters, Polly has
sworn off boys. This summer, she's going to focus on
herself for once. So Polly is happy when she finds out
Grandma is moving in—think of all the great advice she'll get.
But Miss Swoon turns out to be ...
May 18, 2010
tgifbm! a day late.
i've been working hard on my second
round of sequel revisions! and exciting
news, just saw that Fury of the Phoenix
was listed on goodreads with a vague blurb
of the story even. go ahead and ADD IT!! =DD
celebrating this little thing as it makes
it more real, while i'm diligently revising
with editor!
so i apologize for bringing you tgifbm! a day
late this week BUT i'm gonna make it up to you
by giving away two awesome reads. both i just
finished recently and recommend!
Candor was a fantastic...
May 16, 2010
shadow by jenny moss
today, i'm very excited to feature fellow
deb jenny moss' second novel release,
SHADOW. i can't wait to read this one!
Book Summary:
In a time of kings, queens, and conspiracy,
it's impossible to know whom one can trust. . . .
In a kingdom far away and long ago, it was
prophesied at her birth that the queen would die
before her sixteenth birthday. So Shadow, an
orphan girl the same age as the young queen,
was given the duty to watch her every move. And
as prophesies do tend to come true, the queen i...
May 10, 2010
before i leap…
i had a great chat with my editor
last friday as i head into more revisions.
i'm nervous. augh. but i want to make
the sequel better. for me. for you. for
my editor. but mostly for me. okay, most
of all for my characters and the story. =)
i reserved rooms for the sirens conference
in colorado in october today. i'm hoping to be on
a panel about world fey. the guests of honor
this year are holly black, marie brennan, and
terri windling. sirens is a conference that focuses
on women in the fantasy...
