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TELL ME A SECRET is IndieBound!

I just got the news - Tell Me a Secret is now available for pre-order through IndieBound. Woohoo!

So check it out if you'd like to support a local, independent (and, chances are high, very cool) bookstore!

DIY Friday: your own Cheshire Cat

I'm not sure if I'm ready for a new incarnation of the Mad Hatter...

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...because my favorite Mad Hatter will always be my sweetheart (circa 1999):


But I'm always up for a Cheshire Cat paper craft!


Find it here. And if paper crafts seriously tickle your cat fancy, then check out my friend Marilyn's site, THE TOYMAKER, with very cool free toys to make for all kinds of occasions. We've been enjoying them for years!

Story Secrets: THE SECRET YEAR by Jennifer Hubbard

Secrets, secrets...I'm very excited to welcome a fellow debut and writer of secret stories, Jennifer Hubbard, author of THE SECRET YEAR!

(If you've missed previous Story Secrets, check them out here.)

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After his secret girlfriend's death, seventeen-year-old Colt finds the notebook she left behind, but he is unprepared for the truths he discovers about their intense relationship.


The premise of THE SECRET YEAR is so intriguing - where did the idea begin?

I started where the book starts: with ...

rgz LIVE! chat with Sharon M. Draper tonight!

Tonight at the readergirlz blog at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST, join us while we chat with COPPER SUN author Sharon M. Draper. Here's a little hint of Sharon's ability to draw us into Amari's world:

In spite of the heat, Amari trembled. The buyers of slaves had arrived. She and the other women were stripped naked. Amari bit her lip, determined not to cry. But she couldn't stop herself from screaming out as her arms were wrenched behind her back and tied. A searing pain shot up through her...

Katherine Grace Bond, Jack Straw Poet

Special congratulations today to fellow diviner and poet Katherine Grace Bond, who was awarded a coveted spot in the Jack Straw Writers Program - stop by her blog and tell her congrats!


(left to right: Katherine, Janet Lee Carey, Dawn Knight, me, Molly Blaisdell - cheering for Kit!)

Hanging Out with Carrie Jones + CAPTIVATE winner!

Last week I piled in a car with fellow rgz/YA author Liz Gallagher and YA author Heather Davis to see CAPTIVATE author Carrie Jones and her fellow Bloomsbury author Alyx Harvey on the Seattle leg of their whirlwind tour! (Liz also blogged about it here.)

The best part was finding out that Carrie is as sweet and funny and honest in person as she is in her books and on her blog - I felt like I've known her for years! I guess I have, but only from afar until now. Plus I got to meet new Seattle tr...

DIY Friday: Yarnbombing

While I was doing research for last week's DIY Friday, I came across something so crazy, I had to share: Yarnbombing.

Basically, according to Wikipedia, it's "a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk."

Check this out:


Image from the Paper Button Blog

And this, by artist Carol Hummel:














Here's a crochet-covered house in Brasil:
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There's even a book that just came out:











Wow. I thought I was doing well to make a hat and scarf f...

Story Secrets: GONE by Lisa McMann

Welcome to the latest Story Secrets, where YA authors dish about the secrets behind their YA novels. Today, I'm really excited to welcome Lisa McMann, author of WAKE, FADE and GONE (just released this week!), to talk about the secrets behind trilogy.

Welcome, Lisa!

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People often ask me what inspired the WAKE trilogy, and I always answer with the same thing in person as what I have written on my website – I had a dream that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Wh...

Wow. I am on ebay.

I'm sort of speechless. Check this out.

For only $25, you can buy a copy of TMAS "not available to the general public!" and a "pre-1st edition!"



Or...you could come back in a few weeks and I'll be giving a couple away.

;)

Story Secrets winner: Llehn!

Today we have our winner of Suzanne Young's debut novel, THE NAUGHTY LIST! (check out Story Secrets about TNL here)...



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Llehn!



Says Llehn: I've always been a rather good and boring girl. I need to read The Naughty List to spice up my life!


Congrats! Stop by Llen's super cool blog to say hello.



DON'T FORGET: You have until 5pm Wednesday to enter to win a signed copy of Carrie Jones' CAPTIVATE!