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		<title>7 Quick Takes Friday: Now with less treadmill!</title>
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Take 1
(No I haven&#8217;t quit using the treadmill desk&#8230; I&#8217;m just trying to keep it from being the centerpiece of every blog, tweet, and Facebook update I post.)
Take 2
I&#8217;m writing this post Thursday night because tomorrow I&#8217;m going to SCBWI-LA, the international conference of the Society of Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators. There are some [...]


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		<title>AuthorMix is live!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AuthorMix is a web video series I did with some of my fellow YA authors&#8211;Melissa de la Cruz, who wrote Blue Bloods, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, who wrote Beautiful Creatures, and Cecil Castellucci, who wrote Boyproof, Beige, and The Plain Janes!
Come on by and check out our first video!

			
				
			
		


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		<title>Big news, the text edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so excited to announce AuthorMix, a new web video series that brings authors together for casual discussion&#8211;and lets readers eavesdrop! I recorded &#8220;series 1&#8243; of AuthorMix back in March, and we launch tomorrow (Tuesday, July 27).
My guests include authors Melissa de la Cruz, Cecil Castellucci, Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia, and&#8230; me! It was [...]


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		<title>Vlog #4: Announcement time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FUN STUFF going on right now! YAY!

(If you prefer not to watch the video, you can read the news in text form right here!)

			
				
			
		


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		<title>7 Quick Takes Friday &#8211; Treadmill edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, okay, so everything in my life this week revolves around the treadmill! I can&#8217;t help it!

Take, the First
So. Treadmill desk. I believe that as of yesterday I have walked 20 miles this week. It&#8217;s going swimmingly (walkingly?). The only thing I find I can&#8217;t do very well on the treadmill is anything graphics or [...]


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		<title>If a dream is a wish your heart makes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;why did I dream about a family with 14 (or 16) children? Hmm. We won&#8217;t worry about that. You know, thinking about it, the worst part was that the mother in the dream was the one who gave me the 14-16 figure for the number of kids. At least COUNT the poor dears.
Lately I&#8217;ve had [...]


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		<title>Adventures in Adventure, Episode 1: Treadmill desk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, okay. Confession time. Since I graduated high school, I have put on a couple of freshman fifteens. (Which is ironic, because as a dirt-poor college freshman, I actually lost weight. Funny how only eating Campbell&#8217;s soup and baked potatoes will do that to you. Also probably why my skin was gray.)
Flash forward (mumble mumble) [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s like I was psychic or something.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizing today, since the husb isn&#8217;t around, and I can drag boxes around and root through them without having to hear suggestions like, &#8220;Just throw it all away!&#8221; (Which makes me want to throw NONE of it away, naturally.)
Came across this little ditty, which I wrote when I was about eight or nine. I remember, [...]


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		<title>A new way to connect!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce that Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Die now has its very own online discussion forum! 
You can find it here: The Darkroom.
I have met so many amazing people in forums and message boards over the years that I thought it would be very fun to have one where I could interact with [...]


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		<title>The power of music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I begin working on a project, one of the first things I do is start to compile a playlist. The exact content of the songs isn&#8217;t quite as important as the general feel and mood of them&#8211;their ability to get my brain wrapped around my characters and their attitudes, emotions, struggles, etc.
Once I have [...]


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		<title>Contest winners!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, everybody! Thanks so much for entering the contest!
I decided &#8220;what the hey&#8221; and decided to choose two winners! 
(drumroll&#8230;)
Tracy and Danielle!
I have been so swamped that I forgot how much I like giving things away. So stick around, because I&#8217;ll be doing more contests in the future! 
Happy Saturday! I am planning to get [...]


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		<title>Seven Quick Takes Friday &#8211; copyedits edition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Happy Friday, everyone! 
&#8212; 1 &#8212;
Don&#8217;t forget to enter my contest! You could win not one but TWO signed copies of Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Die, one for you and one for a friend! Plus an eye pillow in festive shades of red, white, and blue. It&#8217;s so easy, all you have to do is comment! [...]


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		<title>2010 reading update: June</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, June didn&#8217;t turn out to be quite the reading month that May was! The reason, of course, was that I was having to devote time to WRITING my own book and not just reading those written by other authors.
Here&#8217;s the scoop:
1) When I Stop Talking, You&#8217;ll Know I&#8217;m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive [...]


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		<title>Bad beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Psst! HEY! Did you enter my contest? You could win a signed copy of Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Die for you AND a friend! All you have to do is comment!)
It&#8217;s that time of year again! The results of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest are in! If you&#8217;ve never heard of it, it&#8217;s a &#8220;writing&#8221; contest where [...]


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		<title>Contest time! Win a signed copy of Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Die!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, everyone! Well, it&#8217;s been a while since I had a contest. So here&#8217;s the deal: 
You can win TWO signed copies of Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Die (the Scholastic paperback edition) &#8212; one for you and one for a friend! And I&#8217;ll throw in a cheerfully patriotic red, white, and blue eye pillow to help [...]


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		<title>Book 2 &#8211; a non-excerpt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my BGDD2 working files, I found a file called &#8220;Darlings &#8211; Feb 2010&#8243;. Based on that bit of advice about having to &#8220;murder your darlings&#8221; as a writer. Apparently I found the process of cutting material painful and held onto the hope that I would be able to bring a few back to life. [...]


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		<title>Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Die in paperback!</title>
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Or have you just not [...]


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		<title>New York, New York, what a wonderful town.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this city! There&#8217;s something magical about it. Just being here feels like you&#8217;re doing something. 
We&#8217;ve been all over town, to MOMA (where you&#8217;re walking along and look to your left and, oops, there&#8217;s Van Gogh&#8217;s Starry Night and oh, hey, here&#8217;s Dali&#8217;s Persistence of Memory (which is a very tiny painting! Much [...]


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		<title>Amen, sister!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From this article about Christina Aguilera&#8217;s new album and comparisons to Lady Gaga:
She notes that she&#8217;s sported big, bold hairstyles, fashion and makeup since 2001&#8217;s &#8220;Lady Marmalade&#8221; and says this of the 24-year-old Gaga: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always done what I&#8217;ve done as far as push boundaries and take risks. &#8230; I think now more than ever, [...]


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		<title>Scratchscratchscratch. Scratchscratchscratch.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Winston and I get the same hayfever, and now it is apparent that we both have the same honey-flavored blood. Our house is under flea attack, going on four or five days now, and it&#8217;s downright exhausting trying to keep them off the dog, off me, out of the carpet, and on top of [...]


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		<title>A guest! Author Lauren Baratz-Logsted in the house.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so excited to have a chance to introduce you to one of my author friends, Lauren Baratz-Logsted. When I first sold my book, Lauren was one of the first authors I met, and she was so nice and cool to me, even though she was under no obligation to be!
Lauren is one of [...]


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		<title>2010 reading update: May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, May was a pretty productive reading month! Here&#8217;s the lineup:
1. Nothing Like You by Lauren Strasnick (whom I met at the LA Times Festival of Books, and she is very nice!)
2. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
4. Perfect Nightmare by John Saul
5. The [...]


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		<title>Crafty Monday &#8211; a rainy-day kind of quilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, everybody! It&#8217;s Crafty Monday!

Today&#8217;s craft is another brick-style baby quilt. I started this basically at the exact same time I started Emmy&#8217;s quilt, but I only finished it a few weeks ago. Why, you might ask? 
I don&#8217;t know! I guess I&#8217;m lazy or I have a mental block or something. 
This baby quilt [...]


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		<title>The hot list: week of May 23-30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All right, I&#8217;m tired of big fancy magazines telling me what&#8217;s in and out when I could be proclaiming those things for myself.
IN:
* The American Idol finale. Especially Christina Aguilera! Way to show &#8216;em, Christie! I mean, seriously, she took over the stage.
* The So You Think You Can Dance premiere. YAYAYAYAYAY! Love that show [...]


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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve realized something lately. It strikes me whenever I go to sign a bookplate or inscribe a book.
I have handwriting performance anxiety. 
Ever since I read this article at Slate, I&#8217;ve been mildly obsessed with my handwriting. The article links to some images of an italic style writing and gives a basic explanation. That was [...]


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