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Aug.10.2011
Hmmm . . . where were we? Oh, yes! HERE!
So then, amazing authors and illustrators, editors and agents, were EVERYWHERE. It was as if they had all converged at at the SCBWI Conference, although some behaved better than others.
Here's three time Newbery Honoree, and this year's Golden Kite winner...
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Aug.07.2011
Before I became a published author in October 2003, I joined the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, hence to be referred to here as the SCBWIABCDEFG. Even though I had been a copywriter, journalist, scriptwriter, and a hand model for a Whitman's Chocolate's ad, I hadn't written a...
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Aug.04.2011
I love books. I love to read books. I love to write books. I love to eat books. (I just threw that last one in to see if you were paying attention.)
Last month I went to the Renegade Craft Fair in downtown Los Angeles. (I would have posted this sooner, but then I was at Comic-Con cavorting with the...
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Aug.01.2011
Where were we? Oh, yes, braving the crowds at Comic-Con . . .
I'd say a good 53.7% of the people there had weapons. I however, was only armed with a Peep . . .
Luckily most of the people/creatures/things we ran into were friendly . . .
I was told to go outside when it gets overwhelming, and...
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Jul.28.2011
So then, after the Scholastic party with the likes of this fellow . . .
. . . the next morning I was one of over 120,000 who "trekked" (Get it? Trek. Trekked. Star Trek. Hahaha. Okay, never mind.) Anyway, I was one of many who made it to Comic-Con in San Diego.
Now, I know what you're...
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Jul.25.2011
Comic-Con began for me on Thursday night when my agent, Jodi Reamer, and I attendedScholastic's party celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Jeff Smith's BONE series . . .(Recently, someone tried to impersonate Jodi and sent out fake e-mails saying they were her.)
The grand gala took place at the...
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Jul.21.2011
It was a gorgeous sunny Southern California day on Tuesday. The kind of day where locals and visitors flock to the beach . . .
(Above: Visiting authors Julia DeVillers and Jay Asher first met in Santa Monica and played in sand with their shoes on. CLICK HERE to find out when.)
However, there was a...
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Jul.18.2011
It's possible you heard? The latest (and last) Harry Potter movie came out on Friday.
Now, since JK Rowling and I are practically dear friends, and because my editor Arthur Levine is the editor of the Harry Potter series, and my other editor Cheryl Klein is the continuity editor for the...
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Jul.14.2011
A couple weeks back, I went to Ransom Rigg's first ever book signing. It was a gala event and he wiggled his foot for us . . .
Ransom, who also writes for that delightfully Mensa-braniacic tome Mental Floss, penned an article about his foot and those who fidget.
CLICK HERE for the rest of the...
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Jul.11.2011
Not too long ago, I took my Peep here to see the cool stuff Tim made . . .
We saw this . . .
And this . . .
And this . . .
And this . . .
And this . . .
And then, this . . .
Disclaimer: No proofreaders were harmed (or even used) in the creation of this blog.
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Jul.08.2011
In WARP SPEED, my novel about a Star Trek geek who gets beat up everyday, Marley Sandelski is forced to take a Home Sciences class. The good is that his partner is Emily Ebers(who has her own novel).
The bad is that they have to make a couture outfit out of trash bags . . . and Marley has to...
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Jul.05.2011
Last weekend, despite this article stating that when it comes to YA (Young Adult) books, there's nothing to read but depressing stuff, there was a joyful celebration of the genre.
YA in Bloom, presented by Bridge to Books, was held at Vroman's in Pasadena.
Fittingly, I had my launch party for my...
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Jul.01.2011
I've visited Carver Elementary in San Marino before and have always had a blast.
Recently, I was so flattered to learn that three of the students selected me for their "Famous Californian" report.
Though, I loved reading what they wrote, my favorite parts were the portraits . . .
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Jun.27.2011
Sometimes you write and write and write, and wonder, is anyone really going to want to read this? Does what I'm doing even matter?
And then you get something like this in the mail . . .
It was a packet of letters from the 5th graders Hardy Elementary School in South Lyon, MI. They wrote about what...
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Jun.23.2011
A while back I heard from a fellow with the awesome name of Ransom Riggs. It seems he was working on a project and needed to find authors who were terrible writers when they were kids. John Green had told him about me.
Er, thanks, John.
(Here's Moi and John, who is standing on a chair, with our...
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About Lisa
Lisa Yee’s books for middle grade readers include Millicent Min, Girl Genius, which won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, and So Totally Emily Ebers. Warp Speed, her newest novel, is the eagerly anticipated spin-off of the...
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