Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
I love the word apprentice. For some reason it always conjures up visions of Wart and Merlin swimming with trout (T.H. White’s The Once and Future KIng) or Duny/Ged before he becomes Sparrowhawk (Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea). It’s sort of […]
I have a muse. (Actually I don’t know if it’s really a muse or a figment of my superstitious fearful imagination which has created something exterior to be responsible for everything I write). Whatever the reason may be, I have […]
Currently I find myself in an awkward position. After months of feeling angry and hurt I’ve decided to forgive the person who injured me and forget the events which led up to this. Although when it happened I announced that […]
I’ve decided these are pictures of the minor greek goddess Hiatus. See how she is lounging around? I will NOT be lounging around but I will be ‘away’ traveling the torturous passages of my mind. I’m going to be taking […]
I’m working on the first big revision of my latest manuscript. My betas have read it and most importantly my agent has read it. He is more accurately a literary manager and he works only with writers and illustrators in […]
What’s the first thing I think of after I hear back from my agent or editor about my manuscript and there are suggested changes? Oh god, I can’t face those pages again. I don’t want to, I whine. Which is […]
Just back from week house-hunting and combatting the most evil cold virus ever and lack the, ummm, brain cells (apparently) to post anything remotely resembling a post. So instead I give you (The cutest elephant in the world) Tomorrow I […]
I am in vacation mode. Though it is not really a vacation. It is a hunt. For a house. But try telling my brain that! As far as my brain is concerned it is a vacation. No vacuuming? check. No […]
I have to change the title of my forthcoming YA. It was called LUCKY. I like short pithy titles. My latest completed WIP is called FIERCE. See the trend? Unfortunately there are other books out called LUCKY. There’s a memoir […]
My published MG started with a description of my MC’s life. Small humorous anecdotes. It fit the tone of the book- comic fantasy- but I could probably have begun with a more dynamic scene. Especially since my readership was 9-12 […]