Camp NaNo: No Merit Badge, But Still Plenty of Story

July is over and so is my month long stay at the virtual Camp NaNoWriMo. I spent the month working on a potential sequel to Hat Trick (and WOW, as of today, Hat Trick is just a month away from publishing!). I did not hit my goal of 50,000 words so I don’t get to...

“Hat Trick” is officially “Coming Soon”

As I write this, Hat Trick is 35 days away from its publish date. This morning the cover was finalized and in the afternoon it went up on the Queerteen Press website. The full blurb is there as is the first published excerpt from the novel. I’m thrilled with the...

Off to Camp

I never went to camp as a kid. Being outdoors wasn’t my thing. I am, however, going to camp for July and I’m doing it without leaving the apartment, New York, or my routine. I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo for the month so I can get the first draft of a Hat...

Openly YA! Tour: Seeing Favorite Authors & Discovering New Ones

Last week I caught two of the five stops of the Openly YA! Tour that featured two of my favorite authors, David Levithan and Bill Konigsberg, and meet two authors I was not familiar with, Alex London and Aaron Hartzler. I didn’t intend to have a fanboy moment...

It’s a “Hat Trick” Spring

It’s been an exciting couple of months since Hat Trick was picked up by Queerteen Press, the YA imprint for JMS Books, for release this September. The current schedule calls for the e-book to be available September 1 with the paperback following September 30....

The High and Low of March

March 2013 will likely go down in the history of my life as the month that one of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows coming within days of each other. It was March 16 I reported on the blog that Hat Trick, the novel I worked on for over six years, was...