Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
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 […]
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 […]