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Hi everyone!

I'm about halfway through my book tour, so just dropping in for a quick hello to mention the events coming up in the next week!

Guess where I am now?



That's right -- Seattle!  My first visit here, and it's such a cool city!  Tomorrow -- Sunday, March 6! -- I'm doing my one event in the Seattle area at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park at 5pm.  Reading from DARKSTALKER!  And my adorable baby nephew will be there, so: bonus adorableness!  :)

Then Tuesday and Wednesday Read More [...]

Hello lovely readers!

I have some news! Exciting news, I think—I hope you’ll think so! (This is the big announcement I referred to in the Wings of Fire forums chat!)

But let’s start with the part you won’t be excited about: Book Nine is not coming out this summer.

ACK! I know! Despair! But wait!

HERE’S WHY.

As some of you have figured out, Book Nine is going to be called Talons of Power and it is in Turtle’s POV. It’ll pick up immediately where Book Eight ended.

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Hello lovely everyone!

Happy New Year!

2016 is so exciting already!  Perhaps most exciting for me is the fact that Wings of Fire Book Six: Moon Rising is a finalist for a 2015 Cybils Award in the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category.  Check out the other finalists in the category, or go here for the full list of finalists -- it's pretty amazing!  These are all books I either already love or can't wait to read.  Clearly, book bloggers are the smartest people with the best taste in Read More [...]

Hi everyone!

GUESS WHAT?  Book Eight is almost here!  And by "almost" I mean even closer than we thought it would be -- because it's coming out a week early!  That's right, you don't have to wait all the way until January...the new release date is DECEMBER 29!!!  That's only two weeks away!  YEEEP!  Oh goodness, I hope you all like it!

(Terrifying Queen Scarlet demands that you like it!  Roar!)

In this one, you'll be finding out a lot more about Queen Ruby and Turtle, discovering Read More [...]

Hello everyone!

First, and most importantly, for anyone in the Boston area, I'll be doing an event at the Watertown Free Library this coming Saturday, October 24, at 2pm!  This is almost certainly my last event for 2015 (I need to seriously hibernate to focus on writing!), which means it's your last chance to hear a sneak peek of Book Eight: Escaping Peril before it comes out in January.  Plus also I'd love to see you there!  :)

The trip to Michigan and Wisconsin was amazing -- thank you Read More [...]

Hi everyone!

Just a quick post before I get on a plane today to remind you all that I'm going to be in MICHIGAN! on WEDNESDAY! doing a bunch of school visits and a thrilling BARNES AND NOBLE EVENT which I hope some of you Michigan FanWings can come to!  Wednesday, October 7th!  At 6pm!  At the Livonia Barnes & Noble, 17111 Haggerty Rd., Northville, Michigan.  I'll be reading from Book Eight!  Ooooo, please come join me!  :)

And then on SATURDAY I'll be in WISCONSIN! for the Sheboygan Read More [...]

Hi lovely readers!

So as I've mentioned, a few weekends ago I zipped off to Decatur, Georgia, for the 2015 Decatur Book Festival, which it turns out is enormous and amazing!  I wish I could have been there longer so I could have gone to other panels -- there were so many authors I adore there.

But I was lucky enough to be on one panel and moderate another, and I was even MORE lucky that all the other authors involved were SO WONDERFUL -- both as writers and as people!

I'll start with the

Oh my goodness, everyone.  Would you like to see maybe the most amazing thing I've ever seen?



!!!!!  That is the current window of the largest independent bookstore in France, Le Furet de Lille, which is also clearly THE GREATEST BOOKSTORE IN THE WORLD, with the most brilliant window designers.  :-)  Isn't it beautiful?  So many dragons!  Giant wall of dragons!  Giant wall of Glory, in fact!  Oh, I wish I could fly to France right now so I could just gaze adoringly at this window all Read More [...]

Hi everyone!

If you've checked out my Events page or follow me on Facebook, you may already know that I am heading to Wisconsin next month for the totally wonderful-sounding Sheboygan Children's Book Festival!  Have you seen the adorable video they made yet?

http://youtu.be/xzytCG1Qw0g

SCBF 2015 Video

I can't wait to go hang out with Wisconsin readers and all these awesome authors -- including hilarious lovely Mike Spradlin, who was actually one of my authors when I was an editor!  Eeee Read More [...]

Hello favorite readers!

I know, I know -- where have I BEEN?  Why have I FORSAKEN you?  Did Peril EAT me?  How is it SEPTEMBER ALREADY?  (Answers:  In my office or the pool!  I swear I haven't!  Basically yes!  and I KNOW!)

Let's see, what have I actually been doing for the last three months . . .

June:  I was posting weekly on the Wings of Fire forums and FINISHING BOOK EIGHT, which actually happened, and I am so so so excited about it -- especially since HAVE YOU SEEN THE GORGEOUS Read More [...]