My latest novel, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, is in stores today!If you pre-ordered a copy, it should be arriving in the mail today. Perhaps at this very minute. Thanks…
Last month I competed in a Moth StorySLAM at The Bell House in Brooklyn (and won!).Mashable was there, shooting a story for their website. The result is a beautiful look…
While in Brazil, I spoke to audiences as small as 50 and as large as 500. Part of every talk was one more stories from my life, similar to the stories…
My home is slightly disorganized and cluttered, but my kids are incredibly happy and love books and music and libraries and museums.Both are my wife’s fault.
It's a good video full of excellent advice.My favorite bit of advice from the video - and one that I am constantly telling people - is the advice of the…
As an avid audiobook listener, it was thrilled to receive the audio excerpt from my upcoming novel, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs. I had no say in the choice…
BooklistDicks (Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, 2012) knows high-school bullying firsthand, and his story rings true. But the strength of this novel is its well-rounded characters, notably children and teens,…
The sign says "Reading/Signing" but it really should read:Storytelling/Hilarious Student Readers/Giveaways/Question-and-Answers/Laughs/Signing/Pretty Wife.You should come.
Every month for the last five years, I have been posting my yearly goals and the progress (or lack thereof) that I have made. It's been an outstanding way of holding…
PERSONAL HEALTH1. Don’t die.Feeling younger every day. Sincerely. 2. Lose 20 pounds.Down 12 pounds as of this morning. I might actually accomplish this after all. 3. Do at least 100 push-ups and…
