Congratulations to Christina B and patty1943, winners of the novel and short story prize packs, respectively!And thank you, thank you to everyone who entered the Faerie Winter paperback contest! Reading your blog posts, tweets, fb posts, tumblr posts, google+ posts not only helped spread the word about the paperback, but also just made me smile. […]
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Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day to spread the word about the Faerie Winter paperback and possibly win copies of all my books (including the ones you maybe haven’t heard of)!I’m also over at Suvudu with five true things about Faerie Winter this week.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=A couple weeks ago I talked about my attempts to write a
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At the Tucson Festival of Books last month, I was interviewed by the Pima County Library’s Himmel Park Teen Book Club and IT Nation Teens. Hear the entire interview online.I have a post up today at Tor.com on running away to Minneapolis … I mean Bordertown.There’s still time to win copies of the paperbacks of
“There”s a warm wind tonight / and the moon turns the tide …” Read More »
Faerie Winter, book 2 in what is now officially being called the Bones of Faerie trilogy, is out in paperback today!The contest to win copies of all my books by spreading the word continues until April 20. Enter here!Here’s the teaser Random House included in the front matter of the new edition:I felt my skin
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Faerie Winter comes out in paperback April 10! In the couple weeks leading up to its release, I thought I’d talk a little about some of my earlier conceptions of this sequel to Bones of Faerie. You can also win a copy of the Faerie Winter paperback–and of all the rest of my novels–here.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=In my
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Faerie Winter comes out in paperback April 10! In the couple weeks leading up to its release, I thought I’d talk a little about some of my earlier conceptions of this sequel to Bones of Faerie. You can also win a copy of the Faerie Winter paperback–and of all the rest of my novels–here.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=When I
ETA: The contest is now over! Thank you, thank you, to everyone who entered! (I’ve shut down comments on this post to avoid confusion, but comments remain open over here.)Faerie Winter comes out in paperback (in the U.S. and Canada) in two and a half weeks: on April 10!I think this calls for a contest.
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Liza, the protagonist of the Bones of Faerie trilogy, has grown up in a world where pretty much every plant that grows is trying to kill her, and where the people are only somewhat more trustworthy. This has made her a bit … cautious. On edge. Liza looks at every last new thing she encounters
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There’s an alumna profile of me in this month’s Washington University (aka, my alma mater) magazine! Author Captivates Kids, Expands Imagination“Janni Lee Simner, AB ’89, AB ’89, made a promise to herself when she was 15: She would never forget that she was real. ‘I could tell the adults around me didn’t understand that my
“Show me the wind that constantly blows / and I will fly away, fly away home” Read More »
I’ve been hunkered down going through the (relatively light) editorial revisions on the third Faerie book, Faerie After (now the official title!) and also making some final edits of my own. I find myself wanting to hold onto this book, partly because an writer can edit any book pretty much forever, but also partly because
“In the black of the eye / in the heat of the act / is a crack in the ice …” Read More »