Ladies & Gentlemen! I give you, Lara Zielin

*FYI -The numbers you see hyperlinked as you read down are Lara’s footnotes which appear at the end of the post.   THE TIME I SAW BORAT AND FIGURED OUT MY BOOK, WHICH IS NOT R RATED SO PLEASE DON’T FREAK OUT   Here’s the truth, peeps: DONUT DAYS did not...

Your book’s coming out when?!

One of the most common reactions I get when people ask me when my book is coming out is, “Why does it take so long?” The truth is, if you’re the writer, you’re pretty busy during most of that eighteen months (average) that it takes from...

An interesting discussion

A tweet I made on Twitter sparked an interesting discussion between Donut Days’ author Lara Zielin and myself yesterday. Read about it here on her website. Lara and I have the same editor, and my friend Penny got me her ARC quite a while back, so while...

Three books you want to read…

I put the Need To Read page on a summer hiatus (mostly because I’ve been too busy writing), but here are three books I read recently that I know you want to read. Tango The Tale of an Island Dog (MG) by Eileen Beha – seriously good! This is a read for...