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News Updates—Fall 2008
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| I realize I skipped an entire season, since I didn’t give any update for summer 2008. But my spring was really, really busy this year, so I kind of took things easy this summer. And… suddenly it was September. My main news this month is that my next book, Palace of Mirrors, is coming out on the thirtieth. For more info, click here. Simon & Schuster is giving early online access to the first chapter of Palace (along with several other new and upcoming books). To reach that "Teen Sampler e-book," go to www.simonsaysteens.com. And watch this site for further details! |
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| News Updates—Spring 2008 |
| Three news bulletins regarding my books this spring: |
| • My new book, Found, which launches a new series, The Missing, will come out on April 22. Click on the link to the left for more information about the book and the series. |
| • I’m going on a book tour in April and May to promote Found. I’ll be in California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois and Wisconsin. |
| • And finally, about ten years after people started telling me I needed a website for my books, I now have a website. (Of course, if you’re on this site, you already know that.) |
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About the new website
I’m not sure if I owe thanks or an apology to all the people who have been suggesting, begging, pleading, lecturing and sometimes even haranguing me about how much I need a website. Here are some of the things I’ve been doing in the past ten years instead of putting together a website: |
| • Helping my kids get ready for preschool, then elementary school, then middle school, and then high school |
| • Serving as a room parent volunteer for practically every holiday party in my kids’ elementary school classrooms (What’s Valentine’s Day for a second grader without a heart-shaped cookie?) |
| • Teaching Sunday school |
| • Serving dinners at a homeless shelter |
| • Tutoring disadvantaged children |
| • Doing author visits in places ranging from Alaska to California to Florida to Massachusetts |
| • Writing twenty books |
Of course, in those same ten years, I’ve also taken numerous vacations; read the entire Harry Potter series, the entire Twilight series, and many, many other books that I can’t really justify as “research”; spent many lazy summer days at water parks, amusement parks, the local pool, etc.; and just generally goofed off a lot. So I don’t really have a good excuse for not launching a website sooner. But here it is now. |
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Thanks
I owe a lot of thanks to Tom Mattix, of Mattix-Illustration and Design, for putting together the site, and to my kids, Meredith and Connor, who have agreed to share webmaster duties. |
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