Super excited to announce that EARTH TO DAD is going to be published in mainland China! As the title of the post implies, this is my ...

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...

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 know what you're thinking: since Ms. Petruck and I have the same agent, this post must be part of a setup. But I can assure you tha...

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...

Critique partner and agent sister  Amy and I recently had a candid conversation about how we balance writing and motherhood, and superagent...

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...

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...

Welcome to Part III of "Triplet Talk," a continued conversation with the shoe-tastic Kate Schafer Testerman and her three newest ...

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...