Announcements!

1. My pal Josh Berk is now on lj. Add him. You will not regret it. Today he posts about MC Hammer and makes one of the funniest jokes about braiding hair I’ve heard in awhile. Because you know, there is frothy competition for braiding hair jokes (!)

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2. kimberleylittle has pictures up of shiny purple pumps and signing a THREE BOOK CONTRACT with Scholastic! When I met Kimberly in 2007 at SCBWI LA she had one book published and I believe it had come out, maybe 4 or 5 years before and nothing since. She was a tad frustrated but remained optimistic and kept writing. And voila! THREE BOOKS! Pudding proof that persistence and an awesome attitude can pay off. You go girllette!

3. I finished an ARC of my friend Sarah Rees Brennan’s debut novel The Demon’s Lexicon in maybe two sittings? It was one of those, “Hold on, let mommy finish this one paragraph…chapter…book” kind of rainy weekends.

You know those Hot Guys in YA Lit memes that are always floating around? Well, now y’all have some fresh supplies. Look for it June 2. It is teh awesome! (And you know me. Wimp, right? So now, I’m a demon fan. That’s how good it is!)

4. My child has usurped my yoga practice. She has cried in the childcare center and the longest-fingernails-I’ve-ever-witnessed-live provider had to come fetch me from my class. In mid-pose. As you can imagine, it was tragic. I need to rethink my entire life plan now. As far as I can see I have two choices a) to convince BB she loves childcare center or b) see a

5. I was having one of those neurotic writerly moments that we all know and love because I hadn’t heard back from Special Agent Sara about JADEyet. My thought process:

Just because she’s loved it thus far doesn’t mean she’ll like what I did with the finale, right? I did throw some unconventional curve-balls and oh no, they curved the wrong way and broke Special Agent’s beauteous nose! And it’s bloody! And it’s my fault!

I was convinced she LOATHED the ending. That I had botched up so badly it was beyond repair and she feared telling me because of my fragile tense state (see #4)

BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE!

I *poked* her gently (because it’d been two weeks, and she told me she’d read after one, okay, I know, I’m a premature panicker) and she wrote back, “OH NOZ!! Someone sick! I have not read yet! I have printed and will read this weekend! I can’t wait!”

(She writes all in exclamation marks like that. That is why we get along so well.)

So…*phew*

Dodged a bullet. This time.

Well, until Monday when I start freaking out again.

Meet Nick. He’s waiting to rock your world. June 2.

If you don’t know sarahtales you should. She is one of the wittiest people around. Plus she already has buttons that her fans made her. Buttons! Buttons!