Did you read my explanation of Reviews in Brief? No? Go check out Monday's post! More information about my neurotic thought process than...

Whether they're in the pot, or running through your neighborhood, we hope the turkeys this Turkey Day find you well. Be safe, stay warm,...

By "once and for all," that probably means "for the time being," if I'm truly honest with myself. But still: my goal...

This book is a 2013 Cybils YA Speculative Fiction nominee. I think the cover on this book attracted me initially. I love all things autum...

This book is a 2013 Cybils YA Speculative Fiction nominee. Here is a Thing that happens when I see a Robin McKinley book. I mentally rear...

Finished by her sister, Ursula Jones, and published posthumously by her loving editor, this is the last book in the pipeline from Dame D...

Here's a novel from the great North - a good story to read on a rainy afternoon with a box of gingersnaps and a cup of tea. Did you r...

Listen: my deadline is Monday the 25th. Therefore, I have been blogging less than usual. I have been completely submerged under this rewrite...

When we selected Sarah Beth Durst's CONJURED as our first candidate for Reading In Tandem , AF and I had no way of knowing that we...

This book is a 2013 Cybils YA Speculative Fiction nominee. It feels horribly ironic to be writing this review as the aftermath of Typhoon H...

There may only be a Part I, actually. I should probably self-flagellate back into my Work Cave of Exile for the next 2 weeks, and in fact, i...

KidLitCon '13, that is. I'm all a-bustle this week getting ready for the 7th (can you believe it?) annual Kidlitosphere Conference...

Gather round, children, gather round, with sugar skulls clutched in your wee sticky hands. 'Tis El Dia de los Muertos and have I got a ...

Just in time for NaNoWriMo (which I'm going to have to skip in favor of my humongoid rewrite), some story help for you. Remember all tho...

This book is a 2013 Cybils YA Speculative Fiction nominee. I read Tamora Pierce's MELTING STONES earlier this year, and THE WILL OF THE...

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do tend to read escapist books when I'm feeling overwhelmed by work, thank you very much. Uh, and also wh...

Before I share some of the articles that grabbed me over the past week or two (and which I shared on Twitter), one thing first: the Guys Lit...

"The Devotees work for the Department of Evolution - everyone just calls it Devo - and they do the work of Creation in partnership wi...