Scott Westerfeld’s LEVIATHAN

This has to be one of the best best best book trailers I’ve seen in a long time. Absolutely brilliant. And this new steam-punk series, LEVIATHAN, by Scott Westerfeld looks fascinating…wonder if it’s been optioned yet?
“Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His [...]

The Red Book by Carl Jung

Apologies, I’ve been an awful blogger of late. It’s been, well, months. Not much in the way of excuses, except for a lot of traveling and concentrating on my two WIPs, THE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF THALIA DAARKEN and DIVING FOR AIR. Plus some magazine articles. Anyway, I can’t resist posting a little about Jung’s The [...]

My article in this September’s issue of MARIE CLAIRE: The Abortion Debate: What would you do?

The Abortion Debate: What Would You Do?

Holly Rossiter was pregnant with her second child when doctors discovered that, once born, it would quickly die. How could she bear to keep carrying it?

HOLLY ROSSITER’S STORY, as told to Juliette Dominguez: “My first pregnancy was a breeze. I hung out at the beach near our [...]

The Six Perfections of Writing, from Francisco X. Stork

Am still somewhat on hiatus here, as I’m deep in the outlining process of GIRLS’ GUIDE TO THE SHADOW SIDE, and all that entails (including searching through cemeteries for character name inspiration) but I came across this gem (via the excellent blog BROOKLYN ARDEN of children’s book editor Cheryl Klein) from the blog of author [...]

on holiday hiatus…

and so just ‘tweeting’ for now…but back in the saddle soon…I promise!