“We love the things we love for what they are.” That’s from Robert Frost’s “Hyla Brook.” Variations on the line had been bouncing around in my head for a while before my husband and fellow writer, Larry Hammer, reminded me where it came from. I’d been thinking about Frost (without knowing it was Frost I was […]
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… and I’m guest blogging my magical apocalypse survival kit. Specifically, guest blogging over at I Smell Sheep (entertaining ewe one monster at a time). How could you not want to click through and visit with a name like that?
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Sanah Dillon interviews me at YA Books of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Head on over to learn what Liza, Matthew, and Allie’s original names were in the very first draft of Bones of Faerie, or just to enter to win a copy of Faerie After. The interview is part of July’s Summer Author blitz–check out all
My Shelf Confessions reviews Faerie After: “Simner has a way of connecting you to her characters on an intimate level. Their struggles with each other could very well mirror your own struggles with loved ones … Simner has a deft skill at writing characters I can directly relate to.” I also have a guest post
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Don’t miss Kathi Appelt’s lovely Writing for the Long Haul post on the power of story. At Cynsations I talk about research for fantasy writers: Besides, I’d read enough descriptions of coppery-tasting blood through the years. That many writers couldn’t all be wrong … There was only one way to resolve the question. I dug
Sarah Johnson interviews me at Through the Tollbooth today about writing a trilogy, including discussion of writing exploratory drafts, crafting a character arc over multiple books, and researching the Bones of Faerie trilogy (including some of the pictures I took of Liza’s forest, pre-faerie-apocalypse). And speaking of trilogies, look! It’s a complete set! Faerie After
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I’ll be one of a bunch of YA authors hanging out with the folks at Eve’s Fan Garden for this year’s Camp Eve. Come join us for guest posts throughout the week and a group chat on Thursday.Other participating authors include Holly Cupala, Elizabeth Eulberg, Jennifer R. Hubbard, Nina Malkin, Elana Johnson, Eileen Cook, Joelle
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I’m a guest blogger over at Cynsations today, talking about Love, Perfection, and Books: “… once we reach a certain basic level of craft, writing is no longer about avoiding mistakes or carefully not doing anything wrong. It’s about the things we do right. No one ever loved a book, after all, simply for not
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Still Internet-vacationing until the end of May, but popping in long enough to let you know I have a guest post up today as part of Megan Crewe’s The Ways We Struggle series, on the challenges of letting things go, the benefits of holding on, and how both these can affect one’s (okay, my) professional
“You were holding up the sky / leaning on your leather / and I saw her with you” Read More »
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 »