Hi. How are you? I am fine, thank you.
Well, hey, there, people of the world, or at least subset of the world that reads my blog, which is admittedly a very small subset but, to me, the most important one. Really, I’m very much into you....
View ArticlePhoenix Comicon
If you’re convenient to Phoenix and you’re into comics and animation and science fiction and fantasy and that sort of thing, I strongly suggest you come to Phoenix Comicon this weekend. I’ll be hanging...
View ArticleScholastic Book Club edition of The Boy at the End of the World
So, I went to the big annual conference of the American Library Association last weekend, and in addition to getting to hang out with some of my favorite people in the whole wide world, and meeting...
View ArticleNew paperback cover: Boy at the End of the World
So, The Boy at the End of the World is getting a shiny new cover for the paperback edition. The book’s due out in October, but the cover’s starting to hit some of the online booksellers, so, hey, I’m...
View ArticleGarden envy
I’m pretty proud of my little balcony garden, considering the only plant I’ve ever had success with before is bread mold. But this is the neighborhood garden club. If I had an allotment I could grow...
View ArticleManga Fisher
Reader art makes me squee. Here’s a manga Fisher from The Boy at the End of the World. (Click to embiggen.) (Squee!)
View ArticleState of the garden
Things are getting a little out of hand. The original plan was just to get a few plants to gussy up the balcony so it’d more pleasant when we’re sitting out there or I’m writing or grilling or...
View ArticlePosts and pests
No, I’m serious, I’m going to try to blog more. I can’t afford to get caught tagging freeway overpasses again, and motorists seem to have little interest in reading what I had for breakfast in the...
View ArticleLast Sunday at the Orange Country Children’s Book Festival
Last Sunday I trekked up to Costa Mesa for the Orange County Children’s Book Festival, the largest free children’s book festival in the country, drawing something like 30 thousand attendees, many of...
View ArticleSan Diego History: “You only moved the headstones!”
You know that scene in Poltergeist when Craig T. Nelson is all “You only moved the headstones why whyyyyyyyy??!??!” That’s pretty much what happened in the upper middle-class San Diego neighborhood of...
View ArticleSpring planting
It was a harsh winter. There were dire wolves and the glacier advanced. Men made war and forgot the bonds of kinship. And my balcony garden died. Actually, it was a typical San Diego winter, which...
View ArticlePhoenix Comicon
I’m going to be a guest at Phoenix Comicon and I INSIST that you be there and come to my panels and visit me at my booth (2524). My books will be on sale at the Mysterious Galaxy booth. I’m also...
View ArticleNice Phoenix Comicon
Back from a really fun long weekend as a guest at Phoenix Comicon. I heard there were 44,000 attendees this year, which would be hellish if there were 44,000 jerks, but I met not a single one, so it...
View ArticleGardening update
Life! I put seeds in dirt and made life! I AM A GOD! I started my summer container planting at the beginning of April (because San Diego), and this is what my royal burgundy beans looked like then....
View ArticleCalifornia Bones on the Tor/Forge blog
Hey, it’s the first official mention of my next book, California Bones, over at the Tor/Forge blog. “A heist novel set in a grisly and fantastic alternate Los Angeles in which magical power is derived...
View ArticleA note on a sequel to The Boy at the End of the World
I absolutely love getting mail from readers. Sincerely, I do. If something I wrote moved a reader enough that they want to share something about their reading experience with me, I’m happier than the...
View ArticleArticle 0
Hey, there, The Boy at the End of the World is today’s Amazon Kindle Kid’s Daily Deal. What does that mean? Well, it’s good for me because it means today Amazon splashes it all over social media. And...
View ArticleIt’s my stuff, too.
A little background: Diverse Energies is a young-adult anthology of dystopian stories featuring racially, ethnically, and internationally diverse heroes. My story, “Gods of the Dimming Light,” is about...
View ArticleComic-Con International San Diego’s harassment policy
Just as an FYI, here’s Comic-Con International San Diego’s harassment policy, as of 2012. I wish it were on their website, but since it’s not, here you go: “Attendees must respect commonsense rules for...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....