Category: TGIF

45 days and counting . . .

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till CHOSEN releases! I’m sooooooooo excited about this book! It’s the first ever Canterwood super special and Kate and I worked our butts off on this book. Notice I said “first” super special? Welllll, I’m announcing it for the first time that there will be another super special! A holiday themed one. 🙂 I’m superthrilled to be writing about the holidays, winter, parties, horses in the snow, etc. It’s going to be so. much. fun. I hope you guys like the plan, too!

It’s going to be a non-stop working weekend for me. I’ll be writing INITIATION. It’s coming along well so far. A little slow with the beginning just because I still heard Sasha’s voice in my head, but now I hear Lauren. I absolutely love her and I think you will too.

I want to know your weekend plans! Doing anything fun? Reading anything good? Spill!

Back to writing with Pretty Little Liars in the background.

Love to Team Canterwood.

xoxo

Yay, Friday!

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Happy Friday, everyone!

What’s everyone up to this weekend? I’ll be working on the latest Canterwood book and reading. I just finished watching PRETTY LITTLE LIARS and OMG. So. Good! I’ve read every book except for the latest two and am re-reading the series with Kate. It’s really, really fun to read books with a friend and have the same !!! reactions to certain parts.

Hope you all have a superfun weekend! 🙂

TGIF!

xoxo

Winner!

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A random drawing has selected the winner of LWL! Congrats to…KACY L! Kacy, e-mail me to claim your signed copy of Little White Lies. Thanks so much to everyone who entered. 🙂

TGIF! What’s everyone doing this weekend? I’ve got a few errands and am working on CITY SECRETS.

Books to Movies in 2009 and beyond

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So, The Spiderwick Chronicles released yesterday. Did anyone see it yet? I haven’t, but I’m excited to go.

TSC got me thinking about other children’s books that could be coming to the big screen in 2009 and beyond. I did some digging and here are a few of the possibilities:

Life of Pi (book by Yann Martel)
Girl of the Moment (book by Lizabeth Zindel)
Beastly (book by Alex Flinn)
Ramona (We’re probably all familiar with Ramona Quimby!)
Almost Home (book by Jessica Blank)
The Alchemyst (book by Michael Scott)
The Lightning Thief (book by Rick Riordan)

Pretty exciting, huh? I adored Beastly and it would make a fantastic movie for sure.

Know of any others that I didn’t mention? When I was searching, I noticed that a lot of upcoming kids movies had one glaring theme–girl power. Yep, girls are taking bigger, stronger roles and being adventurers, princesses and cowgirls. Yay for girls doing it all!

Also, I wanted to thank everyone who e-mailed me or found me through my contact page since The Writer article came out. Thanks so much for your kind words and I’m glad to have made so many new contacts over the past week because of it. 🙂

TGIF! What are your weekend plans? I’ve got to edit and update my poor, ignored contact roster. I’ve got a thousand sticky notes with people’s names and info that haven’t made it into the book. Sigh.