Twenty Percent True

This week's novel is We Were Liars , contemporary YA by E. Lockhart. Two years ago, Cadence was in an accident on her family's pri...

I belong to the school of thought that mix tapes are very important.  I used to make actual cassette tapes by rummaging through my parents...

This week's novel is Bone Gap , fantasy set in Illinois and prominently featuring corn, by Laura Ruby.  This one was on the magical real...

I'm researching juggling for the firebird novel.  Here's a peek. Mill's Mess Not as fluid as I want it yet, but a good st...

This week's novel is The Three-Body Problem , sci-fi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Liu Cixin. In order to investigate a serie...

This week's novel is A Criminal Magic , prohibition era fantasy by Lee Kelly. Set in the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition has outlawed ma...

While I was pregnant, my focus and attention span shrunk to the size of a walnut, and it seemed the only thing I was able to write about wa...