Last week, I was honored to attend the Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky Association of School Librarians annual conference in Louisville, where I was presented with the Kentucky Bluegrass Award for I Hunt Killers. The award...
Read MoreAfter yesterday’s post, I heard from some other authors. They said things like this: @novaren @barrylyga YES. Everything you said, Barry. — Malinda Lo (@malindalo) November 24, 2014 Other folks chimed in, as well,...
Read MoreAnyone who knows me well will tell you that I have a general and ingrained distaste for what I think of as our “confessional culture.” Which is to say, people very publicly (and often quite loudly) spilling their...
Read More“Now Amazon is holding my books hostage.” I have much to say on the Amazon mess, but my buddy Peter Brown has said so much, so well that it would be a crime not to point you in his direction: Amazon Is Destroying My...
Read MoreI’m back! Sorry I was absent for so long. As I indicated previously, I recently took a long-overdue vacation. But right before I left, I got sick, so some blogging stuff went undone. And when I returned, my internet...
Read MoreStill incredibly super-duper busy these days, trying to brain out some last minute revision issues before I go on vacation. Plus, I just agreed to moderate a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival in two weeks, meaning I have some...
Read MoreI have been super-busy today, hence the lateness of this post. I spent most of the day doing some final tweaks to I Hunt Killers before sending it off to my second round of betas. Now, usually I send a manuscript to all of my...
Read MoreOh, man. The Writing Life is killing me right now! I have self-imposed a deadline: By September 1, I have to finish new drafts of both I Hunt Killers and The Book That Will Kill Me. The reason for this is that as of September 1,...
Read MoreHey, it’s the thirteenth post in Writing Life! Here’s a black cat for you… And here’s a ladder… And last but not least, here’s a black cat…walking...
Read MoreAs has been the case for the past while, my main focus right now is on I Hunt Killers, which currently lives at the intersection of “Ready?” and “Hmm.” I have a very solid draft finished and the ending is, in my opinion,...
Read MoreAaaand… We’re back! It’s been a while since I wrote about the Writing Life. Mostly because there hasn’t been a lot of writing in my life for the past two weeks or so. I’ve been busy with other...
Read MoreToday is a good day, a celebratory day — today I finished the first draft of I Hunt Killers! I had set a goal for myself of finishing this version of the book before I left town for ALA and I just barely made it. Now I have to...
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