Archive for September, 2008
The Banned Books Week site at the ALA.org says this:
“Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas … Click to read more…
The following books were the most frequently challenged in 2007 (taken from the ALA site):
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received a total of 420 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, … Click to read more…
The most frequently challenged books are books for children. When I was a kid, reading was a way to escape into another world, to hear a different voice, to learn something and sometimes to hear a voice like mine and … Click to read more…
The last week of September every year is declared Banned Books Week by the ALA. This is the from official description from their website (can be read in its entirety thruogh the link above):
BBW celebrates the freedom to … Click to read more…
Cynthia Eden is one of my favorite authors as well as being just truly one of the nicest people in the biz. I devoured her story in When He Was Bad so when I saw she had another antho coming … Click to read more…
I got my cover for RELENTLESS, which comes out from Berkley Heat in May of 09 and takes place after Undercover, in the same world but it’s not a sequel (although you get a glimpse of Ash, Sera and Brandt … Click to read more…
(THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA EMAIL – Thanks to everyone who entered here, at LJ, myspace and Maverick authors too!)
So today what should appear on my doorstep but bound ARCS of Undercover! Yay!! … Click to read more…
Disclaimer thingy: THERE IS NO ONE TRUE WAY with writing. Don’t let anyone tell you that. There is only what works for me and what works for you. So read the following with that understanding. we all do this differently. … Click to read more…
So today started off with a rejection which, oddly enough I wasn’t overly upset about. But then quickly after that I got a note that my editor had read Relentless and loved it (relieved slump) and then I got the … Click to read more…









