There will be spoilers.
Midwinter Kermit
For Worldbuilders I became Kermit the Frog.
Give this excellent charity some cash if you have it to spare. Win geeky prizes like games and signed novels–including my own. Purchase rare and wonderful things from their auction.
Happy Holidays. The world is worth saving. We are all Kermit the Frog.
Two Nights in New York City
This year I served alongside Katherine Paterson, Laura Ruby, Ellen Oh, and Valerie Lewis as a judge for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. From many hundreds of books published in 2016 we picked a longlist of ten, each one incandescent.
Then we narrowed that list down to five finalists, all of them astonishing.
On Wednesday we chose the third volume of March, a graphic memoir by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, as the winner. Read more
Unsettling Things Said By My Children
“My tooth is not a ghost.”
“Ghosts taste like broccoli and cheese and flowers and the ocean.”
“They’re here! The shadow people are here! They want their daylight dinner.”
“I’m pretending to be a cat. Cats scratch furniture to keep the furniture from taking over.”
“When you roar like a monster it tickles my feelings.”
“Your voice is too low and booming for me. It needs to be higher and squeakier.”
“I have my toy shovel and I want you to help me bury up a person. Please?”
“Before I was born, when I was in my mom’s belly, I had nothing to do except play with her skeleton.”
“Dad, when you’re dead and I’m a writer, I will take your place.”
Unhaunted Cover Reveal
The great Kelly Murphy created cover art for A Properly Unhaunted Place, and I adore it. The book itself comes out next summer.
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