Sequel-writing

I had a post up yesterday at the HarperTeen Myspace page...

... and if you follow the underlying links, you will (a) read about delicious things and (b) learn that I have finished a good draft of the sequel to The Explosionist - it is The Snow Queen, and it is with my editor now!

I'll post more details here once I have a clearer sense of when the book is likely to see the light of day.

Plucky schoolgirl foils enemy plot!

Charlotte has a very nice Explosionist bit...

I am also rather thrilled to have made Tamora Pierce's list of her favorite books of 2008!

Lists

The Explosionist makes the Cybils Fantasy and Science Fiction shortlist! I am in very good company, I see...

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve is a strongly Scottish holiday (Hogmanay!), so it is appropriate that I should write to wish you all a very happy new year.

My big goal for January: finish writing the sequel to The Explosionist, The Snow Queen!

I'm not quite sure how the publisher's schedule works, but I would think that if all goes as planned, the book would be published in winter or early spring of 2010 - I'll post more details here as things develop.

Thanks to everyone who has written to me or blogged about liking The Explosionist and wanting to hear what happens next!

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At the HarperTeen Myspace blog, I contemplate the possibility that I should NaNoWriMo...

Excitement...

A Cybils nomination for The Explosionist!

Puffins!

North Berwick in the travel section of the New York Times. This seaside town is about half-an-hour's train ride outside of Edinburgh, and it's mentioned several times in The Explosionist. My Scottish grandparents lived in North Berwick, and it is strange to me to see a picture of the Bass Rock in the newspaper, it is such a familiar sight to me!