hi everyone!!
i’m finalizing my trip to orlando thanksgiving
week (sunday through tuesday) for the ncte/alan
conference and i’m so excited!!
if you are in orlando and love young adult books,
you really should consider attending. here is the
alan site. there will be at least fifty authors on panels
in one place, including ones i hope to meet like
kristin cashore and [...]
Category Archives: silver phoenix
all business: ncte/alan in november
October 27, 2010 – 8:10 pm
sirens in vail
October 13, 2010 – 2:56 pm
hi everyone! i got back from sirens on sunday, took
monday to recuperate and then my mom came to visit.
now i finally have the time to sit down and write a little
about the con. it was amazing! there was just over one
hundred attendees which made it very small, intimate and
personal. the staff and volunteers were fantastic, [...]
ai ling and chen yong by shuangwen
July 27, 2010 – 6:53 pm
i commissioned a portrait of ai ling and
chen yong a while back from a digital artist,
shuangwen. she happens to be from guangxi,
the province that my mom is from! i couldn’t
be happier with it and hope to make postcards
from them to pass out as swag in the future! <3
thanks especially to courtney (ANGELFIRE,
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books, 2/15/2011)
for [...]
happy tuesday!
July 13, 2010 – 1:37 pm
happy happy day!
i woke to sunshine for the first time
in what seems like weeks. the gray gloom
and doom was really making me grumpy!
then i found out that i won natalie’s contest
in making her laugh! (i wrote about me in
a string bikini, #cuteasiancabanaboys, and food! =)
you can read it over on her fantastic blog!
my prize is [...]
the space between
June 8, 2010 – 10:33 am
i’m a little lost and useless. i need to give
myself mindless tasks to keep sane. =)
this is how it is between revisions. on sunday,
i was able to attend harperteen’s Supernatural
Summer tour and see four fellow YA authors there.
mysterious galaxy events are always so much fun!
*kimberly derting, me, kelley armstrong,
ellen schreiber, and kim harrison.
*the turn out [...]