I recently finished watching Frank Darabont’s Mob City miniseries on TNT and am pleased to say I enjoyed it quite a bit. I should add, of course, that I’m a sucker for pretty much any story set in 1930s or 40s Los Angeles, but just because a film or novel involves my favorite setting doesn’t…
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Today I’m in the spotlight at The Poetics Project, thanks to Amanda Riggle who did the interview and posted it. She asked some really good questions about the writing process and some of the decisions that went into The Girl at the End of the World. Head over to The Poetics Project and have a…
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The semester is coming to an end, and I’m watching my Developmental Writing students take their final exams after sixteen weeks of struggling through increasingly difficult reading and writing assignments. Some of them come up to me at the end of the exam to thank me for being an “awesome” teacher–which I have my doubts…
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Did you miss it? To celebrate this week’s release of my YA Post-Apocalypse novel, The Girl at the End of the World, I’ve been running a Giveaway on the blog. 2 lucky winners will receive a signed paperback of the new book, and all you have to do to enter is go to my Sneak…
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The Girl at the End of the World Now available in paperback and ebook formats On sale this week only for 99 cents Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at…
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New Book! My new novel, The Girl at the End of the World, is now available in ebook and paperback form. To celebrate I’m offering a sneak peak here as well as a Giveaway. Would you like to win a signed copy of the paperback? Just leave a comment at the end of this post.…
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Counting down to the release of The Girl at the End of the World, I’ve been thinking more and more about apocalypses. When people contemplate the end of the world, they often wonder how it could happen and what they’d do to survive. But have you ever thought about what would be on your iPod…
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Today I’m pleased to welcome Scarlett Fisher to the blog. For those of you who don’t know, Scarlett has the distinction of being one of very few survivors of a plague that strikes in the novel, The Girl at the End of the World. Scarlett has been kind enough to take time out from her…
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Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too. It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow, on sale now for just 99 cents at Amazon. This is part of an Amazon Countdown deal, so the price will go up in increments for the rest of the week. 41 Amazon…
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“This is an awesome book. It seamlessly blends the classic pulp private dick character of Raymond Chandler and the darkly humorous science fiction of Philip K. Dick into a wonderful read.”–Mary C. Moore “…fast-paced futuristic thriller…“–Publishers Weekly My dystopian Science Fiction novel, Strictly Analog, is on sale for 99 cents at Amazon.com. Fans of William…
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