*all dressed up with somewhere to go! =D
hello my lovely blog readers!!
i turn 37 today!! i love the odd number years,
because i love odd numbers in general. but
i’ve been mooching up the birthday loving all over
the internets rather shamelessly. i joke that i have
Summer Birthday Complex. you know. when you get
your lockers decorated on your [...]

Category Archives: books
neither here nor there
August 29, 2010 – 3:11 pm
Bedeviled: Careful What You Wish For
July 15, 2010 – 9:17 pm
i’m happy to feature shani petroff’s third novel
in the bedeviled series today!
Book Summary:
Being a teen is tough. Especially when your dad’s the
devil. Literally.
Angel is not sure she’ll ever gain control of the powers
she inherited from her devil father. All she meant to do
was help poor nerdy Max break into the popular crowd.
But somehow the [...]
tgifbm! feel the love, baby!
July 4, 2010 – 2:31 pm
like everyone else, i have a pretty busy
weekend filled with secret project, meeting
with wonderful writerly peeps like martha flynn,
reading by the beach and hanging out with family.
i have had so many readers let me know how much
they love Silver Phoenix and looking forward to
Fury. i’m touched and a little overwhelmed. (or a lot. =)
so i [...]
rock paper tiger!
June 27, 2010 – 7:05 pm
a few weekends ago, i was very happy to attend
my friend, lisa’s, signing at Mysterious Galaxy
for her debut, Rock Paper Tiger.
it’s gotten great press and critical reviews!
American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out
in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur—a member
of a Chinese Muslim minority—at the home of her sort-of
boyfriend Lao [...]
tgifbm! Bleeding Violet & Brightly Woven!
June 21, 2010 – 3:30 pm
you WANT these two debut novels. trust me.
they are both wonderful and very different
fantasy novels.
Love can be a dangerous thing….
Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna’s tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the [...]