Stacy

I should have posted the night before Tiffany Trent’s night on Readergirlz, but I’m afraid things have been rather busy at both work and in my personal life and the blog is the thing getting pushed aside. But be aware that Tiffany Trent will be in the Seattle area at the beginning of next week … Read more

Congratulations to author Nina Hess! A Practical Guide to Monsters has debuted on the New York Times picture book list at #3! 

Dang, nobody took me up on the YA LOLcats. Oh well. We’ve been light on editing content this week, sorry about that. Mostly it’s because there’s not a lot going on. Work is work. I finished the final edit of book 3 of Hallowmere (oh, the interesting things that are happening!), within the last couple weeks we’ve … Read more

I think tltrent  had a good idea, so here is the thread to post your YA LoLcats. I’ll start it with her suggestion for my MoggetLOL: And for fun, a bonus LOL with selimsa803 ‘s suggestion, which has nothing to do with YA lit: Now, it’s your turn! Make your own YA LOLcat and post … Read more

I took a picture of Mogget tonight that screams LOLcat to me. But I’m having trouble coming up with a good caption. Here are my two options so far. Suggestions for a better one?

I was just telling a friend last night that if my own cat could talk, especially when I first get home at night, it would consist mostly of recrimination for not feeding him fast enough. Winchester, on the other hand, is writing a book.Ellsworth’s Journal gives me a giggle every time I read it, especially with the … Read more

The prize for which is nothing but bragging rights. Background: I have been roped into a church talent show for this weekend. I could have offered a number of my talents–photography for the display portion, singing a song or playing on my trumpet–but I don’t have enough time to prepare anything interesting. I’d have to … Read more

A reader asks: As a teenager, I wanted to read books that didn’t have sex in them. As a writer, I want to create the kind of books that I wanted to read as a teenager. Yet, I was afraid that an editor or an agent would want me to put sex scenes in my … Read more

The feeling when an editor looks at the final correction on a galley and passes it back to the typesetter without any more corrections is a very happy moment. It means a lot of things: the first is a feeling of relief–one less book to juggle on my schedule! But it’s also a joyful feeling of … Read more

I think the authors I work with can attest that I tend to haunt them. I can’t seem to link to today’s, so I posted it with a link to the comic, which came out in the PW Children’s Bookshelf, a really informative newsletter that comes out every week. That link is to last week’s strip, which I got … Read more