Howdy! Have you read and re-read The Understorey until your eyes bleed?? Have you put a notch in your lipstick case every day since the announcement that Callum & Harper releases DECEMBER 24th!! In the mood to get a sneak peek at best-selling author Fisher Amelie’s latest novel??? Well, come on in a sit a …
Fisher Amelie’s Callum & Harper Exclusive Excerpt/Giveaway! Read More »
This week at the YA Indie Carnival, our posts are about Thanksgiving. Some of us will post excerpts set at Thanksgiving, others might contain a pie or two, or turkeys. Some of us will post Thanksgiving memories or stories. Take a ride with us and share your favorite Thanksgiving stories. This Friday we givie thanks …
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t …
Teaser Tuesday: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Read More »
I had the great good fortune to receive an email from my local San Francisco South SCBWI chapter to let me know that Martha Alderson, author of among many other books her latest The Plot Whisperer : Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master, would be speaking free for members of SCBWI in Palo …
Here’s a bit of what I’m reading today from The Lost City of Z by David Grann: “While Madame Blavatsky continued to practice the arts of a medium, she gradually turned her attention to more ambitious psychic frontiers. Claiming that she was a conduit for a brotherhood of reincarnated Tibetan mahatmas, she tried to give …
In this teaser from 13 on Halloween, Roxie is getting ready for her first birthday party ever. Her thirteenth birthday. On Halloween. I sit in front of the magic mirror my grandpa gave me and want to watch Ally work her magic but she tells me to close my eyes. “So it’s like this. The …
