I'm over at The Debutante Ball today telling everyone how to get FREE author photos. Drop by and see how it worked for me!

Wow! We had a LOT of entries to win Nova's book Dani Noir. I put all the names into my fleece hat (it was a real sacrifice taking it off for the draw as it's been very cold here today!) and my friend and critique partner, Wanda, who is visiting me from Tennessee drew...

I'm very excited to have Debby here. We've "known" each other for years on a Yahoo group for kid's writers and I remember when she sold Blessing's Bead, her debut novel, out now. Here's a bit about the book: Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey,...

In January or thereabouts, I will be assigned a publicist and if you're a book blogger or reviewer, it's possible you might be able to get an ARC through her (I know it's a her...that's all I know). However, since I don't really know much about how that works yet, I...

There are two teens on the island who are special to my heart, and so when it came time to have a teen or two read Restoring Harmony and make sure that I'd gotten all my Canadianisms right, I asked them to read the manuscript. This was last June or so. They both read...

This week, the subject over at The Debs is "favourite online resources" and I'm doing my part over there today. Drop on by.

ARCs at last!!!!!! My book is real! I have to share this part too…imagine this: I hear someone pull up to the back of the house (our driveway goes around to the back) and I look out my window. It’s a guy in a white, unmarked van and he’s messing around with a box in...

I bet you've never gotten a rejection letter from a publisher saying that they'd love to publish you're book, but they're short on paper. That was the case in England during WWII. There's an extremely interesting segment on Radio BBC4's entertainment show Front Row...

Nova Ren Suma wrote the tween novel DANI NOIR. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and was awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and she’ll be a resident at Yaddo in 2010. Her YA novel, IMAGINARY GIRLS,...

I was an actress... I was so young...to give you an idea...the kids? They're now in college!

Speaking of interviews...(see post below this one) I'm over at Pamela Jane's today being interviewed. Drop on by and say hello. Thanks Pamela Jane!

It's Friday and that means I'm over at The Debutante Ball blogging. Well, actually, it's not me...well, it is sort of me...I mean...in honour of Halloween...I have one of my alter-egos helping me out...I mean...well, just pop over there and find out for yourself what...

So...I couldn't help but notice that a few people have dropped by to read the Red Hair article. Thanks for coming over! I've been thinking for a while that it really needs some updating because some of the things I rarely see anymore (vegetarian teens, for example)....

I'm a slow learner. I don't mean that I'm stupid-slow, I mean that I have to process things for a while before they sink in. Also, I need to learn things in layers, building upon what I know, kind of like when you update a computer program. It doesn't wipe out the one...

Good job all of you who plan to stay up for the last 4.5 hours of the readathon, but I'm outta here. Just finished FOR KEEPS and loved, loved, loved it! Nighty-night!

Had to share this great line from the ARC I'm reading - FOR KEEPS by Natasha Friend Because no matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world that can protect you from heartbreak. I was hooked on this from the...