The Cybils Awards are given by Book Bloggers to outstanding Children’s and Young Adult Books every year. Book Bloggers have been instrumental in helping the Mindjack series find its audience, so I’m especially thrilled that both Open Minds and Closed Hearts have been nominated by book bloggers for consideration in their own special award. Here’s the Cybils description: What’s a… Read More

Fall in Chicago, as seen while writing on the 2nd floor of Palatine Public Library The past year has seen a lot of changes in the industry and in my personal writing life, driven by the rise of self-publishing and my personal plunge into it. These popular posts from the past year show I’m not the only one interested in… Read More

The final novel in Heather McCorkle’s channeler series, Rise of a Rector, has released! To celebrate, and in the spirit of October, Eren from the channeler series is here to tell us about a scary moment in her life. Take it away Eren! Eren: It was the thick sort of dark that kind of defines the color charcoal, you know,… Read More

If you haven’t met Lenny Lee, you missed your chance to know the coolest kid-writer on the blogosphere. I say “missed” because Lenny is no longer a KID he’s a TEENAGER! Happy 13th Birthday, Lenny! In honor of this special young man’s birthday, a bunch of bloggers are getting together and posting awesome stuff on their blogs for him. But… Read More

Bad is in the Eye of the Victim – Um – Beholder by Angela Brown and Gwen Gardner All of you are probably wondering why you’re gagging at the smell of rotten eggs and burned everything.  That would be the wonderful scents of sulfur and the never-ending fires of my home. Hell, as so many call it. I have a… Read More