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In the world of making food, there are two main divisions: bakers vs. cooks (not that it’s a battle, although that would make a fun fight sequence).  Now, there are some people who are both, but mostly people will tend toward one or the other. I’m a cook. I don’t really like to make cakes […]

Drinking Christmas tea. Yes, I drink flavored teas. No purist, I. # New chapter book/middle grade series, with animal transformation, adventure, spies, and magic. 99 cents…for now… http://t.co/hXjKQ3vr # Secret identities, people transforming into animals, and a self-rescuing princess: http://t.co/K0RnRaQP Daughter of a spy queen, that is. # RT @AceRimmerBot Smoke me a kipper RT

Tad Williams is one of my favorite authors…he and his wife, Deborah Beale (they write the Ordinary Farm kids’ books together) have independently put up an ebook collection (A Stark and Wormy Knight) of short stories and novellas, of which this is one.  Subterranean Press will put out the print edition next summer.  The collection is going

Tad Williams is one of my favorite authors…he and his wife, Deborah Beale (they write the Ordinary Farm kids’ books together) have independently put up an ebook collection (A Stark and Wormy Knight) of short stories and novellas, of which this is one.  Subterranean Press will put out the print edition next summer.  The collection

I’m going to pick on two types of fictional invaders: zombies and aliens.  Zombies seem a lot more popular these days than aliens do, and I have a couple of guesses as to why. Zombies are people who become unpeople. They go from rational, emotional creatures who do not consume your resources to unthinking, unfeeling

Kindle for Kids is running a guest post of mine, “10 Horrible Things You Did Not Do This Year.” You know how every year, there’s some adult who think’s it’s oh-so-funny to ask whether or not you’ve been good? Here are 10 answers to give that will make you happy…and prove that you’ve been good.

I was restless all last week, not knowing what it was I was restless for, which happens to me sometimes. Now, when I get depressed, then I need to change something.  But when I get restless…I need something new.  Why it’s taken me so long to figure this out, I don’t know. What did I

Remember Joseph Gambit from RolePages?  I put up an interview with him last week…and now he has an interview with me up.  One of the job perks of being a writer–talking to awesome people.  

Adventure.  Spies.  Magic. New chapter book/middle-grade fantasy series inspired by…my daughter.  Bored with reading the chapter books available and with a mother who wasn’t going to take it anymore, she’s read the first three books in the series with relish, jumping up and down, and yelling about what was and wasn’t fair. The main character

Adventure.  Spies.  Magic. New chapter book/middle-grade fantasy series inspired by…my daughter.  Bored with reading the chapter books available and with a mother who wasn’t going to take it anymore, she’s read the first three books in the series with relish, jumping up and down, and yelling about what was and wasn’t fair. The main character