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Winners! Answers!

Thank you so much for the fabulous questions!!! The five questions answered below are the randomly selected winners of a signed Nightshade ARC. I will, however, try to answer all the questions asked in future blog posts.



Here they are:



AmandaJ asks



Who is cuter, Fizzgig from The Dark Crystal, or Gizmo from Gremlins? :) Because I have a soft spot for both of them and could probably never choose between them.



Fizzgig! Because Gizmo never does this:

The Itzel Library asks

Questionable Contest

It's July! [image error]
Nightshade is on the shelves in 3, yes 3, months!!!

To celebrate the new month and the holiday weekend I'm combining two features: Monthly Q&A and a contest.

Here's how it will work: To enter all you have to do is ask a question in the comments below. I will pick 5 random questions and answer them in next Tuesday's blog - July 5.

And the writers of those 5 selected questions will each receive a signed Nightshade ARC.

Yes! You heard that right. I'm giving away 5 ARCs this month. (Thank y...

ALA: Take 2

Wow! I've been home two days now and I'm still reeling from the awesome that was ALA. I've already blogged about the wonder that was spending time around writer heroes. I also had the joy of meeting more Nightshade fans!

Big shout out to Mitali (Alley of Books), Amy (ReadingTeen), Andy (Reading Teen Too) who spent loads of time chatting in the Penguin booth. I couldn't believe how many people showed up. The line was so long that the actually ran out of Nightshade ARCs! Yikes!

On the one hand I'm...

Humor Us

One of the incredible benefits of being a Penguin author is that I get to meet other Penguin authors. My first night at ALA I attended a dinner with wonderful librarians, great Penguin friends, and amazing writers like Laurie Halse Anderson, Ally Condie, and David Small.








Too much happened at ALA to squash it into a single post. So I decided to start with the pinnacle of my debut ALA:

They say you shouldn't meet your heroes.
"They" obviously picked the wrong heroes.

Hanging out with these guys...

Finished!...But Not

Last night I finished Bloodrose (Nightshade #3).
Finishing up a manuscript is an amazing feeling, euphoric and draining. I cried a lot - it's not unusual for me to cry when I'm writing a book, particularly at its conclusion. This book evoked more tears than usual though because it's the third book in the Nightshade trilogy. It's the first time I've ever completed a full series arc and I have to say I was a bit of a basket case when the story came to a close.

But as much it was a bit sad, mostl...

The Fam

It's Father's Day (hi Dad!) Last night I had a very strange dream about saying goodbye. My family were all packing up our cars up at my parents house and hugging and talking about the next time we'd be together. And I was horribly upset through the whole dream. I woke up puzzled because life is good right now. It's great, in fact.

So why the bad dream? (It also had a part involving killer bees, but that's unrelated)
I'm blessed by a truly extraordinary family. When we get together we have a wond...

We are the World

Hi there!

Remember me? I'm the writer who used to post on this blog.

Sorry for the infrequent appearances of late. I'm still busy writing Bloodrose and am being swept away by the final chapters. But I thought I'd better stop by to say "hello" and thank you for visiting, despite my own neglect of posts.

In addition to writing. I've also been sneaking in some World Cup games.

I love the World Cup! I'm likely to run screaming from the label "morning person," while clutching my coffee cup to my chest...

Soon

Hi Blog Friends and Welcome New Followers!!

I'm nearly finished with Bloodrose (Nightshade #3) and I promise that soon there will be real posts here again...except that the World Cup is on right now too...just kidding - though I will be blogging at least once about why everyone should watch the World Cup.

Until then, I'm delighted to point you in the direction of this review that made me SQUEE! Thanks Mundie Moms!!!!

You also shouldn't miss your chance to read the first chapter of Personal...

Detour

Looking for me? [image error]
I'm not here today - but you can find me on Kiersten White's blog :)

Interview & ARC Giveaway

Apologies in advance that my posts will be intermittent the next couple of weeks - I've hit that point in drafting Bloodrose where it's like a boulder tumbling down a mountain, gaining speed, and I can hardly focus on anything but what's happening there.
Fortunately, the lovely Shelli of Market My Words has posted an interview with me and she's giving away an ARC of Nightshade.

So get on over to her blog and enter the contest :)