Princess Mia I got a great letter from my friend Margo (of High School Reunion fame) the other day, and I had to share it. If you have any pictures of your kids with AlphaOops, please send them along! *************** My two year old daughter is beginning to learn her alphabet. She has become enchanted with the story of…
Wobbly Jenny tries out the speed skates I had been looking forward to last night’s Skate Night all week long. By Monday at 4pm it had already been a helluva week. We invited about a billion people to come with us, but in the end it was just me and Jenny (a.k.a. "Jenger Snaps"). Not that we minded too…
I love John Green. I might have mentioned that sometime this summer, after I went to Michigan to meet him and Dan John Miller (who read John’s Paper Towns on audio). Someone directed me to one of John’s Brotherhood 2.0 videos today, and I thought it important that I share it with you. Incidentally, I just finished cleaning off…
Don’t have your copy of Beauty & Dynamite yet? Good news! All our trade paperbacks on sale for $10 We here at Apex Publications always get a little over-excited for the haunting season. To celebrate this witching season, we’re using our own special blend of hocus pocus to brew up a spectacular Halloween Sale! Until Halloween night at midnight,…
The lovely agent extraordinare Jenny Rappaport is currently reading Beauty & Dynamite, and she asked me to please write an essay for the "Book Block" feature on her blog, LIT SOUP. In return, I asked her to say a few words of her own. I didn’t realize they were going to make me cry. Alethea is a magic fairy princess…
Yesterday was a beautiful day. I’ve been waiting for a day like that all year. High in the seventies, low in the fifties. Last Wednesday it was 85/65. By Saturday, it was 63/45. Wha–?!? SEVENTY-SOMETHING. Perfect weather. Is that too hard to manage? Yesterday was a beautiful day. Seventy, with a breeze. And it was a Monday, and I…
Tears, teen angst, and little green men! Join the Genre Chicks this month for tea and conversation as we sip some loose-leaf chai and discuss Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi. General Rybicki joins us for a cuppa. He was, apparently, "so blogging this."
Bar names are OUT. Starbucks names are IN. You know what I mean. The barrista chipperly asks for your name when you’re the only customer in the whole place, apart from the guy on the laptop and the guy reading the Wall Street Journal, both of whom are starting to collect dust. So who am I going to be…
Lee on Wheels I was thirteen the last time I went roller skating. It was the summer before high school. My self-esteem was so low that I forced my parents to sign me up for summer school gym, so that I wouldn’t be forced to get undressed and shower in front of other girls like we were supposed to…
For everybody except the 38 people who’ve found me there in the last 24 hours: yes. I am now officially on Twitter. I flirted with the username UnicornPrincess, but figured it would probably be best to just use plain old AletheaKontis. Plus, you know, people might actually be able to find me.
Dearest Squad, Yeah. I had to…
Dearest Squad, Back when I started this book, I…
Dearest Squad, This chapter is dedicated to my paternal…
