Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
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 […]
As I trudged up a mile of steep hill this morning, pushing the (almost) three year old in her substantial stroller and thinking about my wrists and thigh muscles, I found myself wondering what the hell I was going to […]
I’m such a dork. When I read this out loud I pronounce the ‘p‘. Must be some remnant from too many bad sci fi tv shows when I was a kid. Or something my sister and I used to say […]
WIN SPRINTS Back in Berkeley when I trained as a boxer I used to run 3 miles a day. Our house overlooked a park – and lest you’re imagining a Central Park kind of scenario let me tell you that […]
More boxing and writing analogies. The first time I punched someone in the face I stopped and said I was sorry.Dont apologize! my trainer, Eric, screamed from the corner, Hit him again. He had to toughen me up. The weird […]
(this post originally appeared January 13 2008 on my old website). I used to box back in Oakland, California. I started as a way to control the stress I was feeling after my best friend died. I figured hitting things […]
At the end of this post you’ll find a trailer I received via Nicola Morgan’s blog. Her topic was actually about what happens when as a writer you have a brilliant idea and shortly before you begin or are about […]