Or not . . . Good article in the New York Times about this.  I’ve written about this before, but I continue to think/worry about this.  The kind of sustained attention/concentration you need to read a book–to really lose yourself–is so different from the kind of jazzed-up, juiced-up  flitting around that’s encouraged in most digital [...]

So, they’re at it again.  Nice article this morning in the New York Times on the battle between Amazon and Apple over e-book prices.  It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I favor competition and freedom of choice, and for you to have choice, there has to be more than one player.  Plus–honestly–people [...]

So I was waiting until it became official before announcing, but since the announcement was posted today on PM and Egmont USA has drafted a release . . . I guess it’s official. Egmont USA has taken my YA dystopian thriller, ASHES, and the other two books in the trilogy (SHADOWS and MONSTERS). It was [...]

Carolrhoda Lab, the new imprint putting out DRAW THE DARK (my YA paranormal mystery that started life as STALAG WINTER, a 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semifinalist), goes live this morning.  Check it out: http://www.carolrhodalab.com/ Oh, and Marcelle?  I’ve always remembered what you said after reading the proposal: “I want to read that when it [...]

This article is enough to make you weep.  The topic’s like global warming; you feel helpless and angry and wonder how people can be so damn selfish as to believe that they’re the only important species on the planet.