Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
I went to hear YA author Lauren Oliver read from her novel “Before I Fall” (Harper) this weekend. You can check out her website here. Most days I slob around wearing my comfiest jeans and a big sweater. Frequently it […]
My mother swears she never read me the Struwelpeter (aka Shock-headed Peter) story about the tailor with the huge pair of scissors who leapt in through the window and cut off your thumbs if you sucked them. I will choose […]
I must confess something. (Until recently) I always finish a book. Even if it’s not a very good read. Once, outraged with bad writing, weak plot, annoying characters, I hurled the book across the room. Disgusted. But half an hour […]
Used to be I was so wrapped up in my first book and its characters that I thought about it all the time. You could call it obsessive. The other day I suddenly realized– while explaining the gist of it […]
Lovely and immensely talented author Lucy Coats blogged about overcoming and doing battle with the dastardly writer’s block recently. You can read it and all the useful comments here. Someone raised the question: do fantastically successful writers like JK Rowling […]
Pie Sometimes its good to do something different with your hands.I made this:Its an almond-crust apple pie. Its very good with vanilla ice cream.I am going to let my husband and kids eat most of it, because Im a martyr […]
When I first got my agent, and spent days gushing about him, a writer friend told me that wonderful though an agent is, the relationship a writer has with her editor is equally (or more) important. She confided that she […]
aka researching….digging… Before I start writing, I amuse myself (for days and days) by surfing the web and printing pictures which I then pin up above my desk. At the mo’ there is a map of the Vegas strip, a […]
I’m sure all my readers are too young to remember this tv commercial. I can— barely…But basically it was for an Eggo brand waffle- which was in a toaster and when it popped up, two people grabbed for the same […]
Isn’t it amazing how quickly guilt sets in after finishing a book? The guilt of not immediately jumping into the next one, I mean? I’m talking about writing books here, not reading them. There is NO GUILT involved in reading […]