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July 22, 2015
License to ILL
I’ve got some more ILLUMINAE updates for you folks because this book has consumed my life lately in all the best ways, kinda like the vagina monster in Neil Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS, and how the hell are they gonna work THAT into the HBO series is what I wanna know. First, and most importantly, […]
June 23, 2015
ILLUMINAE stuff
Updates! Updates I say! Okay, first up. Amie and I are very chuffed to report that Kirkus, the “World’s toughest book critics” have awarded ILLUMINAE a much-coveted starred review. You can read the full review here, but here’s our favorite snippet: “AMBITIOUS, HEARTBREAKING, AND OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD AWESOME.” This is my second star from Kirkus, who also […]
June 17, 2015
A cordial invitation
Hello droogs, So this is a weird one to write, because it seems to be a sensitive issue for some folks, and lately, the map of the blogger/reader/author world is pocked with spaces marked “HERE BE DRAGONS”. I don’t really like telling people what not to do, and this post is kinda That. But I […]
June 3, 2015
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys – Title reveal
Hello Droogs! SO, I’ve mentioned in the past I got invited to contribute to a horror anthology titled SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS by the awesome April Genevieve Tucholke, and we’re a little over 2 months from launch. Over the next couple of days, every author in the antho will be revealing the title of […]
June 2, 2015
ILLUMINAE – Project: Global Domination
Hello droogs, A couple of you oh-so-awesome reader-types have been pawing at the windows and asking whether or not ILLUMINAE is being published in your neck of the woods, and it occurs to me that Amie and I have been slacker than a slacker’s slack bits about celebrating/announcing the foreign rights sales for our odd […]
May 25, 2015
New series deets (drumroll please…)
Hello droogs, You might remember late last year I announced I’d sold a new fantasy trilogy to the awesome folks at St Martin’s Press. Well, I’ve been slaving like a tall, caffeine-fueled grinder monkey (minus the cute jacket and little hat) in between working on ILLUMINAE and ILLUMINAE 2, and at last, I can announce […]
April 6, 2015
ILLUMINAE COVER REVEAL
Hello droogs! It is that oh so exciting time of the year when I get to show off the cover of my new bookthing! Drumroll! Curtains! Many! Exclamation! Marks!!!11! ILLUMINAE is nothing if not different from other books, and Amie and I are super jazzed to report the cover is probably different to what you’re […]
March 16, 2015
GIF WARRRRRRRR
This contest is open internationally. Hello droogs! So, as you might know, my partner in crime Amie Kaufman and I have a new book coming out this year called ILLUMINAE. You can pre-order it here if you really wuuuuv us. Early reviews are starting to come in, authors like Marie Lu, Laini Taylor and Beth […]
March 6, 2015
Why you should see JUPITER ASCENDING
Basically, because it’s bad. And I mean terrible. I saw it last weekend, and it’s a clusterfuck of epic proportions. A film so charmless it makes the VHS footage from my 11th birthday party (spoilers: we had cake) look like a contender for Best Picture at the Oscars. I did an impromptu survey outside the […]
February 24, 2015
Fish, chips, cup ‘o tea
Quick one, because I’m on deadline and books don’t write themselves. It’d be kind of awesome if they did, but then I guess I’d be back on the dayjob and wowwww is that a thought that makes me want to stab myself in the face with this keyboard . . . But what’s not depressing […]
