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My Grandma Grosso passed away last night. She was 92 years old, and of tough Scottish stock. In our family, she was known as The Queen, and so it feels a little weird knowing that our queen is no longer with us. I thought I would take a few minutes to share some facts about our family’s matriarch. Grandma had an almost pathological hatred of cameras. It’s a good thing she was born when she was, because I don’t know how she would have survived in an era of camera phones and Facebook. She was not an athletic woman in any way, but the minute someone pulled out a camera, you should have seen how fast she ran out of room. It was like she suddenly morphed into Jackie Joyner Kersee. The only other time I ever saw Grandma move that fast was when insects...

Wishing everyone an awesomely wonderful and amazing 2012!

Merry Christmas or as Devo says Merry Something! Hope Santa brings you everything you want!

Last week was fun and incredibly exhausting, after about a year of corresponding pretty much daily with fellow members of the Class of 2K11, I finally got to meet many of the members. It wasn’t really such a shock to find out that these fellow debut YA and MG authors are as friendly and fun in real life as they are online. I truly feel incredibly lucky to be part of such a wonderful group. We took New York by storm with group events at libraries and book stores and even one night club. Here we are at our mega group signing at Books of Wonder: It was no coincidence that our events in the city coincided with the huge BEA conference that took place last week, and some of our members were signing copies of their book or advanced copies at the expo. I was signing...

I know there are way more important things in the world to get upset about, but sometimes little things can really get under my skin. My latest pet peeve is the term “hen lit”. Have you heard this term? It’s used to describe books aimed at older women. Here’s a nice description by someone who does a better job at explaining these sort of things. It comes from the term chick lit, which to tell you the truth I was never crazy about anyway. Chick Lit, in case you’ve spent the past decade or so living in a cave is fiction that centers on young women of which Sex in the City is a pretty good example. No not all chick lit is Sex in the City, some of it’s way more complex and some of it’s way more vapid. Generally, though,...

This is just a warning that I am working on a few website modifications and things might get a bit bumpy and look a bit strange around here the next couple of days.