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News Updates—Fall 2009 |
It's been a busy fall! Some highlights:
* Sent arrived on the New York Times bestseller list.
* I went to Germany to promote the Missing series there--or, as it's called in German, Im Sog der Zeiten. (If you know German, check out www.haddix.de.)
* Claim to Fame came out in November.
* I wrote the final book in the 39 Clues series.
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News Update—Spring 2009
Depending on how you look at things, I am either very slow or very early in announcing this news: I am going to be writing the tenth and final book in the 39 Clues series. If you're clued-in, you may have already seen this announcement somewhere else (even, possibly, on my own Facebook page). But I've been slow about updating this website with the news, partly because the book itself won't be coming out until fall of 2010, which is still a long way off. And I've just now started researching info about... oops, I can't really talk about that. But I can tell you that the book will end with... okay, I can't actually tell you that, either. (Did you really expect me to?) I am having fun with the research, and I think I will also have a good time figuring out the conclusion to Dan and Amy's adventures.
In the meantime, Sent is coming in August, and I'll be going on a book tour to promote it in early September. And then my next book, Claim to Fame, will be out in November. So this is shaping up to be a very busy year! |
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News Updates—Winter 2008 |
I've been telling people that the second book in the Missing series will be available in the spring, but.... the official release date is now August 25, 2009. Sorry! Simon & Schuster wanted to bring Found out in paperback before releasing Sent, so that pushed the date back. I feel a little guilty now for ending Found on such a cliffhanger. But I hope you will feel that Sent is worth the wait.
Right now I am working on the revision of the third book in the series, which I initially intended to call "Lost," then decided to call "Deserted," and now am leaning toward calling "Sabotaged." It might be safest for me just to tell people to look for something labeled "The third book in The Missing series."
And I will have other book-related news to announce in early March!
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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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