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January 8, 2013
Catching up
I’ve gotten behind on posting news (and generally updating my site). This past year I had several short stories pubbed in ODYSSEY, including: “Camera Futura,” January 2013 - This one is a bit steampunky and centers around a Camera Obscura. “The Long Glorious Now of Max Madden,” September 2012 - Boy gets stressed out and [...]
April 4, 2012
Book 3 is Official!
From Publishers Marketplace: Angie Smibert's THE MEME PLAGUE, the last title in the MEMENTO NORA trilogy, wherein a group of teens fight to expose the truth about the city's mandatory ID program and the ID chips' ability to implant false memories, to Marilyn Brigham at Marshall Cavendish, by Tina Wexler at ICM (World). Book 3 [...]
November 10, 2011
Forgetting Curve ARCs
The second book in the Memento Nora series will be coming out May 1, 2012. Here's the jacket copy: Aiden Nomura likes to open doors—especially using his skills as a hacker—to see what's hidden inside. He believes everything is part of a greater system: the universe. The universe shows him the doors, and he keeps [...]
August 23, 2011
The Forgetting Curve
I just got the go ahead to share the cover for the next book in the Memento Nora series. I'm happy with it! btw, here's the jacket copy: Aiden Nomura likes to open doors—especially using his skills as a hacker—to see what's hidden inside. He believes everything is part of a greater system: the universe. [...]
May 8, 2011
Memento Nora Comics Exhibit
After helping me out this semester with the Memento Nora Project, the fabulous students at King Middle School in Portland ME get to exhibit their work at their local library! MEMENTO NORA PROJECT Comics Art Exhibit May 6 – July 1, 2011 Portland Public Library Teen Room The middle schoolers, under the mentorship of students [...]
April 7, 2011
And the winner is
You may have forgotten, but way back in February I asked a few of my friends to share some spit-worthy memories each week before the launch of Memento Nora–and you guys could comment to enter to win this prize pack: The stuff includes: Signed copy of Memento Nora Temporary tattoos and stickers Bookmarks Your very [...]
March 20, 2011
Memento Nora Launch Party
It's almost that time! Memento Nora will be out April 1st. (No April Fool's jokes please!) The main Roanoke City Library will be hosting the book launch for me on April 4th at 6 pm. Everyone is welcome! There will be a band–Suite 325–and pizza. And I'll try not to bore you. The City of [...]
Auctions for Japan
In last week's, League of Extraordinary Writer's post, I highlighted some of the efforts of the YA/MG community to help Japan. Two of those auctions–Write Hope and KidLit4Japan–kick off this coming week. I've donated a signed copy of MEMENTO NORA to each of these auctions. I'm not sure what the Write Hope schedule is, but [...]
February 16, 2011
TFC Tour Stop #2: A Tale of Two Noras (and a cellphone)
It's bonus reward point day on the TFC tour. You'll get two Noras for the price of one. Today I'm hosting the fabulous Bettina Restrepo here as part of my Memento Nora launch tour—AND as part of her own launch tour for Illegal (Harper Collins- Katherine Tegen Books). Her book comes March 11, 2011. So [...]
February 9, 2011
The TFC Tour Schedule
MEMENTO NORA hits the shelves in 8 weeks! In Nora James' world, if you're haunted by a bad memory, all you have to do is walk into a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic (TFC), pop a pill, and go on like nothing ever happened–sans that particular memory. And you earn frequent forgetting points for every visit. However, [...]
