I'm thrilled to announce that THE MULTIPLYING MYSTERIES OF MOUNT TEN is a 2019 Whitney Award nominee. Thank you to everyone who read...

I'm thrilled to announce that I sold another book! From Publishers Weekly : Alison Deering at Capstone has acquired Krista Van Dolzer...

When you sell your first manuscript, you're ecstatic. Your lifelong dream is (finally, always finally) coming true. You did it. You real...

The title pretty much says it all, but I don't always remember to celebrate the good news, so I wanted to make sure that I mentioned it ...

It's okay, you don't have to pay I've got all the change --Ben Folds, "Still Fighting It" I don't do change...

I'm so pleased to announce that THE SOUND OF LIFE AND EVERYTHING is a Junior Library Guild Selection . Now, if you're anything like ...

Liz and I have been friends since Kate signed us within a week or two of each other back in the spring of 2012, so when I found out that Al...

I apologize for the silence last week. I'm in the process of wrapping up Steve's latest round of revisions, and then Clyde's wai...

It's been a while since I mentioned Clyde . I guess that's just what happens when a manuscript is on submission and you're waiti...

When Amy and I connected on Kiersten White's blog a while back, I knew right away that she was going to be special. Her prose was smoot...

First off, don't miss my guest post for Team Krista alum Mackenzi Lee! She asked me a few weeks ago to participate in "Four Book F...

This is the post I've written a thousand times in my head but never needed to put down on paper. This is the post I've dreamed about...

Once upon a time, I sent Amy Sonnichsen an e-mail. We were unagented, and since we'd gotten requests from Kate Schafer Testerman in the...

All right, so I left off at the e-mail. (Here’s the first half of the story, in case you missed it yesterday.) As I mentioned before, the e...

I’ve written this post a hundred times over the last few years, but unfortunately for you, I never wrote anything down any of those other ni...

Well, it’s April, and I’m back! (You really didn’t expect me to stay away for long, did you?) And I come bearing news! A few weeks ago, I re...

So thrilled to announce that my friend and critique partner, Liesl Shurtliff , just sold her MG fantasy RUMP, a delightful retelling of Rump...

Lots of good news to share with you. To start, several frequent commenters have landed agents in the last month. Cambria Dillon signed with...