Hello, friends. It's time for an end-of-summer giveaway! We have a prize pack of 16 books up for grabs, including the first Agency novel, A Spy in the House. Ready to play? The DASH rules Visit all fourteen participating authors and tally the answers to the featured question. This means you need to count how many authors chose A, B, C, D, E, or F as their answer to the featured question. … [Read more...]
It’s almost time
Hi, friends. Tomorrow marks the start of the YA Dash, a giveaway featuring a prize pack of 16 books (including A Spy in the House). The contest runs from August 25 to August 29. (But the YA Dash isn't one of those times.) I hope you'll come back tomorrow to play! … [Read more...]
Confetti and contests
Hello, friends. This week, the Agency novels are once more bursting forth into the world, dressed in their new, super-atmospheric covers! To mark the occasion, I've written a brief guest post and my generous publisher, Candlewick Press, is sponsoring separate giveaways at each of the following blogs. Click to read each post and hopefully win a full set of the Agency novels: Four Victorian … [Read more...]
Scandal & superheroes
Hello, friends. On April 26, Candlewick Press will be reissuing all four Agency novels in super-atmospheric new covers. There will be a mini blog tour and some giveaways (hurrah!), and I'm feeling pretty verklempt about the whole thing. I am so grateful that the amazing people at Candlewick remain 1000% behind my books. I adore the new covers (which are closely based on the amazing UK … [Read more...]
Reading ahead, reading abroad
Hello, friends. I had SUCH a lovely batch of unexpected mail this week! First came Candlewick Press's spring/summer 2015 catalogue. Its cover (right) is based on the cover of the new Kate DiCamillo novel, Raymie Nightingale, which will be published in April. Hurray! I had more personal reasons for reading the catalogue, too. It feels like the March publication of Jessica Spotswood's A Tyranny … [Read more...]
A beautiful reminder
Hello, friends. How was your week? I've been writing, weeding, baking, and judging a teen writing contest, among other things. A few days ago, I received a large parcel from my former literary agency. Most peculiar! Most mysterious! I opened it and found these, to my great astonishment: I'm extremely embarrassed to confess this, but I'd pretty much forgotten about the Korean edition of … [Read more...]