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Sometimes when I do school visits/Zooms, the readers ask, “what’s your favorite book that you’ve written?” and I usually say that I’m fickle and I love different books for different reasons, blah blah blah, but NOW, at LAST I have an answer.  It’s Trouble in the Stars.  This is truly the book of my heart.

Trouble is such a funny, weird shapeshifter kid.  I hope you will enjoy their adventures!

 

My next book, Trouble in the Stars, comes out soon, and I thought you might like to see the letter about it that was sent to booksellers and early readers.  Book of my heart!

Dear reader—

Boy, has it been a tough year.  A lot of my writer-friends have felt so slammed by all the upheaval in our world, finding it hard to find that well of creative joy that we tap into when we write.  I was in the same uneasy state when I started working on my next book.

Then Trouble appeared.  I’d been thinking ab...

It’s about my next book,Trouble in the Stars, which will be published by Philomel, an imprint at Penguin/Random House, in April 2021! I lrrrrrve this book so much, and I hope you will too!

One of my BFF’s, , has a new book out, the third in the Osteomancy trilogy, and it is one awesome read, with dragons, bone magic,adventure, and a great YA vibe. Be sure to start with the first book, , and don’t miss the sequel, , which is dedicated to me and a certain goat…

Anyway, Greg and I sat down for a chat:

Me: Can you tell my blog’s readers three awesome things about the Osteomancy trilogy? Greg:1. The magic system: Wizards get magical powers...

Every time one of my books comes outI post the dedication and acknowledgements page because NO published book is created by just its writer–a whole team is involved, and this is another chance to thank them. Thanks to you, too, for stopping by to read this!!

Dedication:

To my dear, genius editor, Toni Markiet.

Acknowledgements:

Thanks, as always, to my editor Antonia Markiet, with whom I am so honored to work. And to her assistant, Abbe Goldberg, and to wonderful senior editor Alyson Day. Go,...

What if the stories tell us??

My first YA, Ash & Bramble, is not really a retelling of a fairytale, it’s more an exploding of it. Cinderella has amnesia. The Godmother is the bad guy. The Prince is a mediocre kisser. The Shoemaker is … kind of cute, actually. And a happily-ever-after is the worst possible ending.

The book comes out from HarperTeen on September 15th!

My local independent bookstore, , is taking pre-orders of Ash & Bramble–and everypre-ordered book comes signed (by...

Ash & Bramble is coming! (In September) (From ).

Yessssss.

In the meantime, you can enter to win one of five copies at 카지노싸이트.

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Yes, you’ve seen it before, but this is the actual gorgeous cover for Ash & Bramble.

In publishing they call it a “jacket,” by the way. But I’ll persist in calling it a “cover.” In the picture here it’s covering a book that is not my book, because the actual book doesn’t come out until September. It’s sitting on a stack of ARC’s (early copies for reviewers and booksellers, and maybe for you once I get around to doing a giveaway).

Sometime before then I’ll be sending out some sneak peeks and...

If you’re looking for a signed copy of The Magic Thief: Home, you can order it from .

Email: kids@prairielights.com

Phone: 319-337-2681 (ask for kids dept)

AND not only can I sign the book to you, I also add a secret rune message, a different one in every book! It looks like this:

Then you can decode it using the key at the back of the book.

Can you guess why the G is circled in this picture?

Yup, it’s true–the fourth book in the Magic Thief trilogy goes out into the world today!

When I wrote this book, it was not under contract–I wrote it because I love the characters and couldn’t stand for their story to be over. I’m so happy and lucky that my publisher, , decided to go for another Conn adventure.

As is my tradition, on a book’s publication date I post the dedication and acknowledgements, because a book comes into the world through the efforts of many, not just the...