Define Irony.

You're kidding, right?

Publicity...

I just got off the phone with two publicity people from FLUX, the publisher of Chasing AllieCat.
It's overwhelming--but completely exciting that Allie and friends are going to get some publicity out in the world. It's humbling, too. And it's starting to feel real...

I'm excited, though, for Sadie, Allie, and Joe to start riding in people's world's all over the place.

Pub date: Feb. 1.

Flood Stage

It's duck weather out. Even Freya didn't want to be out in the downpour this morning.
Worms are the only happy critters. And ducks. But they don't count when hunting season is approaching, do they?

Books!

Just finally read Crank by Ellen Hopkins. I've heard female YA readers rave about it, and couldn't get into the first few pages though I tried a couple times. This time I decided to keep reading until I fell in, and fall I did. It's good. Very good. Sometimes I'm amazed that she gets by with the abstractions she uses in places, but I think it's so solidly imagistic the rest of the time, that we all forgive her. It's well, well, worth the read.

Books to Pine for...

I'm sort of amazed...grateful, humbled. Chasing AllieCat is getting some attention, and it's not out yet:

http://www.thestorysiren.com/2010/09/books-to-pine-for-42.html

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492290-chasing-alliecat

More than one way to cross a river...

More than one way to cross a river. I LOVE this photo.
The Veloist is looking for caption ideas. Submit away!
http://www.veloist.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Poster from Junior Library Guild

Poster from Junior Library Guild!

http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/files/PrintYourPosters/Fall_2010/jlg_levelPBH.pdf

I'm feelin' humbled...and very excited. Can't quite believe Chasing AllieCat is showing up somewhere.

The bicycle...

Christopher Morley said, "The Bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." Makes me smile.