NYC and the DALLES, OR!! Coming Your Way!

NYC and the DALLES OR

I’m Coming Your Way!

Greater New York!!

I’ll be at BEA 5/29-30/13

BEST OF BOOK EXPO EVENT at

BOOKS OF WONDER

 

Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m.

I'll be signing with authors Alethea Kontis, Kevin Emerson, Patrick Carman,

Carolita Blythe, and Joelle Charbonneau

BEA SIGNING THURSDAY, 2 PM, TABLE 3

The Disney Publishing Worldwide booth #1721 will have ENCHANTER HEIR galleys, tattoos, bookmarks, and other swag. Don’t Miss it!!

Hey, Oregon!!

Crossing the Continent to be at

KLINDT’S BOOKSELLERS YA EVENT!!

Saturday, June 1, 11 AM to 3 p.m.

315 E 2^nd St

The Dalles, OR 97058

Phone: 541-980-3355

http://www.klindtsbooks.com/calendar_events/394-young-adult-ya-book-signing-event

I’ll be among TWELVE AWESOME AUTHORS: Mike Mullin, Rae Carson, Tina Connolly, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Graham Salisbury, Jill Williamson, Kendale Blake, Danielle Myers, Crystal Beran, Phil Duncan, Katie Kacvinsky, and Graham Salisbury.

On the Road Again! BEA, Bookfests and More!

Join me at Claire’s Day

Northwest Ohio’s Largest Book Festival

Maumee Branch Library

501 River Rd., Maumee, OH

Saturday, May 18, 2013, 9:30 AM to 5 PM

I’ll be in the Teen Tent from 2-3 p.m.

Signing books all day

http://www.clairesday.org/

Book Expo America 2013

May 29-June 1, 2013

New York City, NY

http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/

 I'll be Autographing: Thursday, May 30:

2:00-3:00 PM: Signing in Autographing Area

Klindt's YA Book Event

The Dalles, OR

Saturday June 1, 2013, 11 AM-3 PM

I'll be one of 12 authors of books for teens appearing at 

Klindt's Booksellers

315 East Second Street

The Dalles OR 97058

Ventana Sierra Teen Writing Workshop

Carson City, NV

June 15, 2013

Western Nevada College

2201 West College Parkway, Carson City, NV 89703

This FREE writing workshop for teens is sponsored by the Nevada Arts Council. 

For more info http://ventanasierraworkshops.com/events/young-writers-workshop/

How to Keep From Being Influenced By Other Writers

Young Writer Writes: How do you end up creating an entirely new idea without basing the story off of any of the other books you have read?

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.--Wilson Mizner 

The Writer’s Response: To put it bluntly, you can't. 

 We are all influenced by other writers. I learned most of what I know about writing by reading. Reading is like taking a private workshop with a master of the craft at minimal cost. My best advice is to read widely; that way, you're less likely to steal too much from any one person.

Don’t worry so much about coming up with a brand new idea. It’s been said that there are no new ideas—that all stories fall into a limited number of standard categories. Fear not! If you give two writers the same idea, they will write entirely different stories. Each writer brings to the page her own database of experience. Nobody has the exact same life experience as you do—they’ve not been the places you’ve been, met the people you’ve met. Even if they had, they would not view them through your unique filter. Writers are constantly gathering material for story just by living their lives.

Make each idea your own by incorporating your own experiences into the writing of it.

When I read another writer with a strong voice, that voice tends to leak into my own work. The best defense against that is writing practice. All artists do this--there is no substitute for practice. The more you write, the more likely you are to develop your own voice. Our first novels tend to be derivative; subsequent novels become more and more our own. 

HOUSTON!! Coming Your Way This Saturday

 











Saturday April 20
I'll be on the
POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANEL
With Alaya Dawn Johnson
Jennifer Nielsen
Caragh O'Brien
Mary Pearson
Morgan Rhodes

Meet dozens of fabulous authors! 
Hope to see you there. 
Teen Bookcon

By Request: The "New Line" of Gray Wolf Queens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Marianna ana’Lissa ana’Theraise ana’Adra ana’Doria ana’Julianna ana’Lara ana’Lucinda ana’Michaela ana’Helena ana’Rissa ana’Rosa ana’Althea ana’Isabella ana Clara ana Alexandra ana Katrina ana Rhona ana Livia ana Brianna ana Marta ana Cassia ana Elena ana Jenna ana Marciana ana Gina ana Paulina ana Sabina ana Savana ana’Alyssa ana’Hanalea ana’Maria   

There were 32 altogether in the New Line of Queens after the Breaking (Raisa is the 33^rd, and the first mixed-blood queen.)  Alister and Alyssa were the twin offspring of Alger Waterlow and Hanalea. 

Old Line Queens

Thea was a queen during the Captivity. Queen Regina was the last free queen of the old line. When cornered by the wizard invaders, she tried to kill herself and her two daughters by leaping off the Escarpment into the Fens

April Events in Orrville, Dayton, Newark OH, Evansville IN, Houston!!

Orrville, OH -- Wayne College Writing Workshop
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The University of Akron Wayne College
1901 Smucker Road
Orrville, OH 44667
Phone: 330-683-2010, Toll Free: 1-800-221-8308
Register now! http://wayne.uakron.edu/writers/writers-workshop.dot

Dayton, OH - Three Fantastic Fantasy Authors Right Here!
Sunday, April 7, 2-4 p.m.
I’ll be chatting with Rae Carson (the Girl of Fire and Thorns series) and Victoria Schwab (The Archived and Near Witch).
Books & Co
The Greene Shopping Center
4453 Walnut Street
Dayton, OH 45440
Phone: 937-429-2169

Newark, OH -- Presentation and Signing
Thursday, April 11, 2013, 4 p.m.
Licking County Public Library
101 West Main Street
Newark , Ohio 43055 740-349-5552
http://www.lickingcountylibrary.info/

Evansville, IN -- River Bend Writing Project
Workshop for Teachers
Saturday, April 13, 2013
University of Southern Indiana
http://www.riverbendwritingproject.com/index.html

Evansville, IN: Bookstore Appearance and Signing
Barnes & Noble Evansville
Saturday, April 13, 2 p.m.
624 South Green River Rd,
Evansville, IN 47715, 812-475-1054
http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/4235108

Houston, TX -- Teen BookCon
Saturday, April 20th 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Alief Taylor High School
7555 Howell Sugar Land Road Houston, TX 77083
http://www.teenbookcon.org/Home.php

What Does the Warrior Heir Have To Do With Standardized Testing?

Nothing. And that's just fine.

In January, while her classmates tapped in answers on the computerized Measuring Academic Progress test, Daisy read The Warrior Heir, a fantasy novel. "My classmates were, like, 'Man, I'm so jealous.'"
Read more on The Chicago Reader.