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Stop-the-wedding hijinks from my favorite author
I’m so pleased, tickled, delighted, wowed, impressed, touched, and inspired by Jennifer’s new middle-grade novel, Revenge of the Flower Girls, which is officially published today. She’s a smart, funny,...
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Bigger than a book: my new, (no longer!) secret project
For the past few months, while working on getting my next few books written and revised and ready to greet the world, I’ve been plotting away behind the scenes on a secret project with Austin, Texas,...
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Central Texas educators: Win this Day-Glo Brothers teaching aid
The Day-Glo Brothers, my first book, was published five years ago this week, and when I began doing school visits, I brought along this 32″ x 10″ visual aid. It consists of seven sturdy posterboard...
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Get your gaming guesses (and your guesser-gamers) ready…
For my upcoming book Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet, it’s pretty obvious which video game terms the letters A, B, and C are for. But what about the rest of the alphabet? In the...
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Bartography Express for August 2014, featuring Jennifer Holm’s new novel
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of The Fourteenth Goldfish (Random House), the new novel from Babymouse author and three-time Newbery Honoree Jennifer...
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Here’s to Be a Changemaker!
My friend Laurie Ann Thompson‘s debut, Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters, comes out today. I’m so enthusiastic about this book that I’ll be giving away a copy and featuring an...
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Bartography Express for September 2014, featuring Laurie Ann Thompson’s Be a...
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Be a Changemaker (Beyond Words), the new YA how-to guide from debut author Laurie Ann Thompson. If you’re not already...
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Bartography Express for October 2014, featuring Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A...
How many copies of my new book, Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet, am I giving away this month to subscribers of my monthly newsletter? Three. How many opportunities do readers have between...
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In which I talk with Katie Davis about gaming, writing, marketing, and 85 or...
I’m a few days late to the party, thanks to my participation in the YALSA and ILF events, but I’m happy this morning to share with you this recently recorded interview I did for Katie Davis’ kidlit...
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Bartography Express for November 2014, featuring K.A. Holt’s Rhyme Schemer
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Rhyme Schemer (Chronicle), the new middle-grade novel in verse by Kari Anne Holt. If you’re not already receiving...
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Q&A with Trent Reedy, author of Burning Nation
This month’s edition of Bartography Express features a Q&A with Trent Reedy, author of the second book in the Divided We Fall trilogy, Burning Nation (Scholastic). It also includes a giveaway of a...
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Bartography Express for January 2015, featuring Trent Reedy’s Burning Nation
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Burning Nation (Scholastic), the second book in Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall YA trilogy If you’re not already...
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Bartography on Pinterest
Just a reminder, for those of you on Pinterest, that I’ve got pages there for each of my books: The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet Can I See Your I.D.? True...
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Bartography Express for February 2015, featuring Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in...
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Fish in a Tree (Penguin) by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. If you’re not already receiving Bartography Express, click the image...
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Bartography Express for March 2015, featuring The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
This month, at least one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter — maybe more! — will win a copy of my new brand-new book. To celebrate next week’s publication of The Amazing Age of John Roy...
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Bartography Express for April 2015, featuring Anne Bustard’s Anywhere but...
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Anywhere but Paradise (Egmont USA) by Anne Bustard. If you’re not already receiving Bartography Express, click the...
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Bartography Express for May 2015, featuring Elena Dunkle’s Elena Vanishing
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Elena Vanishing (Chronicle Books) by Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle, and another subscriber will win its companion...
View ArticleBartography Express for June 2015, featuring Jacqueline Kelly’s The Curious...
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate (Henry Holt and Co.) by Jacqueline Kelly. If you’re not already receiving...
View ArticleBartography Express for July 2015, featuring Lindsey Lane’s Evidence of...
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Evidence of Things Not Seen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Lindsey Lane. If you’re not already receiving Bartography...
View ArticleAnother Kind of Hurricane and ways to support New Orleans
Tamara Ellis Smith, featured in the August issue of Bartography Express for her debut novel, Another Kind of Hurricane — — has asked me to share this with you. I’m so glad she did, and I’m happy to...
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