Lo and Behold, it’s a new book! (and lots of other stuff)
Hello reader friends! So happy to be coming up for air and hoping you’re doing well! Been a busy (and of course, utterly bizarre and challenging), last few years for all of us. I have a whole lotta updates and some random stuff to share so thank you for visiting, and if you’ve left a…
Read MoreLO AND BEHOLD
Greetings and salutations! Been a while. Hope you’re happy and healthy! I’ve been hard at work on my latest project, a graphic novel called LO AND BEHOLD. It has to do with virtual reality, and moon trees, and lots more that will make sense if you read it (which should be sometime in 2022!). There…
Read MoreBOB and ROBIN HOOD! Not in the same book. That’d be weird.
Greetings and salutations! I’m excited to share two new projects coming out in May. First up, on May 1st, is BOB! This book is a collaboration with the always-brilliant Rebecca Stead, author of such wonderful books as the Newbery winning When You Reach Me and Goodbye, Stranger. I think the easiest way to tell you…
Read MoreEclipse and New Book News
Hi guys! Eclipse 2017 has come and gone! When I wrote about it in EVERY SOUL A STAR, 2017 seemed so far away! I hope a lot of you got to see either a partial or total eclipse–we were in the mountains of North Carolina at a radio observatory–one thing that was really surprising that…
Read MoreA note on gratitude…
My twentieth book (The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase) came out this year. That feels like a big milestone when I worked so hard and dreamed so long of just writing one good enough to get published. I’ve thought a lot about gratitude over the years (Oprah really had something with that gratitude journal…
Read MoreCandymakers sequel is out in the world!
Thank you to everyone who helped land THE CANDYMAKERS AND THE GREAT CHOCOLATE CHASE on the New York Times Children’s bestseller list and the Indie Booksellers Children’s bestseller list on its first week out! I’d send you each a basket of candy if I could (although I’d probably eat it first)!! I hope everyone who…
Read MoreSummer 2016 New Books a plenty!
Hi All! This is the newsletter I sent out to anyone who signed up on the website to receive book news. It’s chock full of updates (Voyagers, the Candymakers sequel, Space Taxi and more). I’ll update the pages here on the website to include the new books very soon. Can’t seem to cut n paste…
Read MoreGRACEFUL and SPACE TAXI 3 hit the shelves!!
Hi!! I’m excited to announce that GRACEFUL is out TODAY, April 28th!! This time it’s REALLY the last book in the Willow Falls series! THE LAST PRESENT is out in paperback today too, so it’s a great time to catch up on the series if you’re behind. On a personal note, these books have been…
Read MoreCandymakers 2 (or CM2 as I’ve taken to calling it!)
Hi all!! I’m still deep underground trying to meet my deadline for The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase. Your suggestions for new candies and road trip ideas have been SOOOO HELPFUL!!!!! Thank you!!! For those of you who haven’t read the first one yet, spoilers ahead so may not want to read the rest…
Read MoreSchool supplies, yay!!
Hi guys!! I hope everyone is having a great start to school! It’s almost ninety degrees here in Jersey today, so I say it’s clearly still summer. :O) I promised some news updates, and here ya go. A few years ago I wrote two books for teenagers called LEAP DAY and HEAVEN LOOKS A LOT…
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