I often get frustrated, even angry, about publishing now. Last weekend I went to look at a house -- I've never owned one -- and while...

Last summer (pre-baby bulge!), I participated in an Asian American Author Series of interviews for Primary Source . Other authors ...

Some friends and I were talking about re-reading books we had loved as children, and how some hold up and some don't. For me, LITTLE ...

Aren't they fantastic? More here . (Via Cup of Jo )

Last year, I was asked to write a blurb for the upcoming book Kimchi and Calamari, by Rose Kent (which is a really nice book, by th...

An agent told me recently that when she looks over her list, the mss. that ended up selling the best are the ones that took longest to plac...

Happy valentine's day! If you are in love with the printed word, you will be delighted to peruse this article about the twenty mos...

As I mentioned last week, the CBC Diversity Committee blog is up and running. I'll be posting again this week at some point, but last we...

The Special Edition Pocket Pacy s that I gave away at my Dumpling Days Book Launch are starting to pop up! These photos were accomp...

I finally got around to watching this. Hilarious! I love that Colbert cut out all of the "private parts" and put them in a b...

"Procrastination is the thief of time" -- I never knew Charles Dickens said that, though it's one of my favorite sayings. He...

We only hear about the success stories, and with making money so hard for most books from publishers, it has to be even harder if not impos...

Last week I was listening to NPR on the way to the grocery store and they were talking about the subject of writing. There were two quote...

For the past year or so, I've been meeting about once a month with a group of children's book editors from other hou...

Our question of the week is: What outside influences do you use to keep yourselves focused? ALVINA: What outside influences do you use ...

More than 3,000 writers have signed their support for Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world. You’ll find their nam...

As a follow up to this post , this article explains what B&N is doing in response to Amazon's business tactics (essentially refu...

As an author, I get editorial letters; as an editor, I write them. How do you handle them when you're the author? How do you want the...

If you haven't seen this article yet, it's worth a read. Depressing yes, but lays out how Amazon has influenced publishing in c...

This past weekend I spoke at three different break-out sessions at the NY SCBWI conference on "Narrative Fiction"....