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My lack of a nightstand

I was recently interviewed by author Victoria Loustalot for her blog The Pencil Box. The interview posted yesterday.  She asked me to photograph my nightstand (I don’t actually own one) and then formulated her questions based upon the image that I sent to her.  You can read the interview here.

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The music of UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO

My guest post on The Undercover Soundtrack is up today. The Undercover Soundtrack is a blog that invites authors to share the music behind the novels that they write.  In some cases, it’s the music that an author may listen to while writing, and in others it’s the way in which music plays a role…

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Guest post: An essay on the power of getting to know an author personally

One of the unexpected joys of publishing a book is the connections that you make with readers around the country.  A middle school student in a suburb of Chicago reads your first book, for example, and then writes an epilogue for the book as part of class assignment. Then she sends you the epilogue, curious…

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