I apologize for not posting much recently, I'm behind on everything--even my pocket pacy contest  (I have so many wonderful entri...

We are trying something new: a question of the week we will all answer....or those of us who want to will. The question this week is: WHA...

Just returned from a busy week in Virginia at the Festival of the Book . More on that soon! In the meantime, here is a clip from an inte...

Hi all, Happy Spring! Sorry for my lack of posting lately. I'm in the crunch time of work deadlines and editing my Spr...

Last weekend, This American Life retracted a story -- the one told by the actor who went to China and did a stage show on the hor...

Hey guys, I'm working on improving my school talk and I'm in need of an example of a picture book done in 3D. Sculptu...

So, I've been traveling a lot this month--school visit marathon!-- and I'm starting to bend towards getting a e-reading device....

Next week I will be packing up the car and heading south for the Virginia Festival of the Book . It takes place in my hometown of Charlot...

I'm traveling around this month, doing lots o'school visits, but this blog post, Why The Pretty White Girl YA Book Cover Tren...

Today,there's a fun little podcast interview with yours truly at Authors are Rockstars . I love how they we talked about the stor...

It seems to me, in general, there are two types of writers. People for whom ideas come easily and the craft and follow-through are a c...

I'm posting this on an airplane on my flight back from a lovely school visit (I'm still in awe that I can get the in...

It's a quiet, snowy day up here in the mountains. Not much to do but look out the window and wait for the driveway to be cleared. No...

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...