Hey, hi! One of my goals this year is to newsletter monthly and blog weekly. The newsletter just went out, so this will be a shortish post. But the important thing is I’m here. We’re a month out from the release of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds. Preordering (or putting on hold at your library!) is caring. …
I write this post from deep on deadline. The kind where some days washing your hair helps you remember you’re human, but most days you forget both those things. But the end is nigh! Not in an apocalypse sort of way. This week is the launch of mine, Carrie Ryan and Rachel Caine’s shiny new cross-platform …
So for #KidLitWomen month, I thought I’d talk about something near and dear to the part of my heart filled with the ever-burning rage-fire stoked by oh so many things, namely: how fantasy and romance (and also fantasy that includes romance) written by women for the young adult audience is often looked down the nose …
Hi there, everybody! What I feared would be largely unnoticed effort to apply direct pressure to festivals and conferences and publishers to stop harassment in response to Anne Ursu’s survey has now grown — in less than two weeks — to include more than 1400 people in the children’s and YA community, including authors, educators, librarians, …
Change Starts Now (And It Has, aka The Final Letter) #metoo #ustoo Read More »
Earlier this week brilliant, award-winning author Anne Ursu published an essay about the responses and conclusions from a survey on sexual harassment in the kidlit and YA field she recently conducted, spurred by the #metoo movement. If you haven’t read it yet, go do so immediately. I’ll wait. Like many, I was not so much surprised …
#metoo #ustoo Change Starts Now: Stand Against Harassment in the YA/Kidlit Community Read More »
This is me ducking in to let you know that Girl on a Wire and Girl in the Shadows are on sale this month for Kindle — you can get the first for $1.99 and the second for just $.99, so do that thing. Find them here. I’m delighted to find Fallout on this list of …
Hello, friends! I didn’t mean to let so long go with zero updates here, but you know. It happens. Anyway! This weekend Christopher and I are at the Decatur Book Festival in Georgia. I have pink/red/orange hair now, so if you see me feel free to say hi. If you want to not have to …
Triple Threat is officially out today! A real post later about that. But in the meantime here’s a space for you to discuss spoilers once you’ve read the book and ask any questions you have for me!
So, some of you have read my first novel Blackwood (thank you!) — though many of you, I’m sure, are like Blackwoodwha? That’s probably because it was issued by a smaller UK-based publisher as the first title in a new YA line that, alas, was not long for this world. I’ll be forever grateful to Angry …
I don’t usually duplicate tiny letters here, but it’s been awhile since I’ve updated and so… I’m getting back to doing these weekly (or close to) so sign up at http://tinyletter.com/gwenda if you want them in your inbox. * I write this with a cup of coffee in my Justice League coffee mug (which I …
a dispatch on distractions and the other writing time Read More »