Category: Novels
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The Gone Away Place
It’s been forever and a few days since I last posted anything on my website, but I wanted to make sure to note that today my new novel, The Gone Away Place, releases from Knopf Books for Young Readers. I’m excited as always to have a new book go out into the world, where it will…
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Signed Copies of Wonders of the Invisible World
In just less than two weeks, my new novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, will be released. I’m incredibly excited for this book to find its way to readers. The local book launch event for the book will be held at Barnes and Nobles in Boardman, Ohio on September 11th, at 7 PM, where I’ll give…
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Being on Set for Jamie Marks is Dead
At the end of this past week, I took a spontaneous trip to upstate New York to visit the film set for the movie “Jamie Marks is Dead” which is based on my first novel, One for Sorrow. The director and script writer, Carter Smith, had sent me an email earlier in the week inviting me…
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One for Sorrow AKA Jamie Marks is Dead
I have good news at the end of 2012. My novel One for Sorrow‘s film rights have officially been sold, and filming will begin shortly in the new year, from what I understand. This has been a long-term project for the director/script writer and the production company he has assembled since he first optioned the…
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Another recommendation
Over the winter break I had a chance to read more books of my own choosing than I’ve been able to do in a while. One of them was Ali Shaw’s debut novel, The Girl With Glass Feet. This novel is a modern fairy tale, set in a faraway land, St. Hauda’s, an icy island…
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Towards the end of something
One of the things I’ve become conscious of after writing two books and being in the latter stages of a third one is when I’m nearing the latter stages of narrative. I’m not a plot outliner; I write forward, sometimes at a charge, sometimes groping in the dark. This makes for an organic, non-linear process,…
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Artscape Article
I did a phone interview with Columbus Alive this past Monday about me, my writing, and my upcoming reading at Thurber House next Wednesday (which you should come to if you can!). Here’s a link to the article. The writer/interviewer was very cool. She’d actually read a bunch of my stories and books (which isn’t…
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Wherefore art thou, Juliet
Today we bring you an awesome interview with the editor of my first two books, Juliet Ulman. Okay, so “we” don’t bring it to you, Jeff Vandermeer does, over at Amazon.com’s blog, Omnivoracious. Here’s a connecting pass to it. And if you like reading Juliet’s really smart and insightful perspective on editing, publishing, and the…
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Q&A
I’ve been spending the past week doing Q&A at the Endicott Mythic Reader’s Group on Goodreads, and there have been some really thoughtful questions. One came in today, to which I just responded. And I’ve decided to post the question and my response here, too. Q: Ghosts and eldritch kids in and of themselves aren’t…