I am so excited! I was invited by SmartPop and Orson Scott Card to be a part of ENDER’S WORLD — a collection of essays about the Enderverse compiled and edited by the creator of Ender himself. ENDER’S WORLD will be available February of 2013. It’s not up on Amazon just yet, but you can check out what’s happening…
Recently on Twitter (I seem to be on Twitter a lot while I’m writing fiction–it’s quick and easy) a bunch of us were discussing reviewers who blatantly ask for free books, and the value of such reviews. Since then, I’ve been mulling over how to respond to these folks. Because according to some of my considerably more published friends,…
When Bitten By Books asked me if I would like to do a guest post, Rachel and I bounced some ideas back and forth. I’m always up for doing something different, and Rachel was in the market for more vlog (video blog) content. VOILA! A match made in heaven. So here’s my guest post — it’s live today. Just…
Janet and I just did a really great interview over at Sequential Tart. MAN they asked some good questions. I love the irony of doing interviews for The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice’s Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There — all my answers are wordier than the entire book. Heck, the title is almost wordier than the entire…
You know I’ve been working on it, and those of you who saw me on book tour this summer got the scoop, but the stars have finally aligned and I can officially make the announcement: Harcourt has signed me on to do two more books in the Enchanted series!!! And there was much rejoicing. *snoopy dance* ************ PRESS RELEASE:…
My Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award arrived in the mail today. It’s a medal. An honest-to-god medal. I feel like I just won the Olympics!!! (And yes, I did bite it. I just didn’t take a picture of that…)
More on this later because I have GOT to finish writing Chapter 10 today…but SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I didn’t even know non-picture books could win this! (For the record, the cutoff date for publication was May 31st, so The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice’s Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There isn’t eligible until next year.) From the website: The Gelett…
Today I am a-blogging over at The Waterworld Mermaids about the ultimate sacrifice a writer must make when he/she is trying to write a novel on deadline: HOUSEWORK. The house is going to look like hell, and you’re going to have to let it. Among other things. Read my bit of insanity here. (I have taken a picture of…
I should really mention that there is a VERY IMPORTANT PAPERBACK out today. AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First is now available in paperback for the very first time anywhere! I’m so very honored, because 1.) you have to be a Very Important picture book for your publisher to release you into paperback and 2.) this is the very…
While I was doing the YouTube research on my Making Money blog post yesterday, I came across something very fun. Out of curiosity, I typed “Alethea Kontis” into the YouTube search function to see if any of my videos or deleted scenes (or interviews at Dragon*Con, or fan videos of various panels) came up first. Surprisingly, what came up…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter…
I finished my novel on Wednesday. I had such…
Joan Wilder was always my hero. I was 8…
