Stacy

It’s not helping me right now. Rather, there’s just so much to wade through, and I don’t think I’m using the right search terms. I’m trying to get a sense of what children’s and young adult books have been optioned for movies in the next few years. What are the up-and-comers? Also, what other fantasy … Read more

Our parent company just started this health incentive program that as employees exercise and use this web-based program to keep track of it, we earn points that we can earn prizes with. Part of the program is a thing called “10K a day,” which involves trying to walk 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) a day. … Read more

The consequence for getting so into what I’m doing that I work long hours: I haven’t done my dishes in several days, and something in there stinks. Which attracts the cats, of course.

It’s funny how when you finish a project and decide the next day you’ll catch up on all those things you’ve put off, the pace actually quickens rather than slackens. I’ve spent the last two days working longer than I have in a while, but it’s fun work. Going through piles of paper I’ve been … Read more

In case anyone out there has been holding on to a stand-alone fantasy novel that they’d love to submit to us, I wanted to point out that our submission guidelines have been updated. I have a particular interest in a new original high fantasy for upper middle grades, either as a stand-alone or a series … Read more

I’m flipping back and forth on TV between a documentary called Planet Twelve: The Secret Life of 12-Year-Olds which isn’t showing me any new secrets but is funny to watch all the same, and the beginning of The Return of the Musketeers, the opening scene of which begins with a closeup of a hand drawing … Read more

It fascinates me how much the editing process intertwines with the writing process. I like to write a little myself, and it’s clear to me that my talents run most clearly to the editing end of the process. I’m fine with that–it better be, if that’s how I make my living! When I write, It’s … Read more

When it’s published, that is. I’m just finishing up an edit on the first book in a new dark historical series for teen girls that comes out next year. I can’t tell you much more than that, except to say that it’s *good*. I love my job. I get to read fun books for a … Read more

In answer to . It’s been growing this last year, and hopefully will grow more this summer if I get to go to ALA. create your own personalized map of the USA or check out ourCalifornia travel guide I’ve only been to one country outside the U.S., and that’s Scotland–well, count the whole U.K., I … Read more

Forwarded to me by a friend at work. It does seem to be at least a stereotypical line between different kinds of writers. I can’t say, though, that I’ve ever heard a writer talk about the agony–more, the hard work of it. Writing is definitely hard work, as much as any other job. But he … Read more