Penny Blubaugh

I'm honored to have been given a Book Oscar by Diary of a Bookworm for Blood and Flowers. And I'm sharing it with Erin Morgenstern, author of Night Circus! We tied in the category of Best Visual Effects. Check it out by clicking on the link to the right.

Zarah Gagatiga, librarian at the Beacon School in the Philippines has made me their author of the month! Read her review of Serendipity Market as well as our interview by clicking on the link on the right.

Readteen.com is a new book/author/review/interview site. Check out my interview and while you're there read about Michelle Ray, author of Falling for Hamlet.

I'll be on a panel at AWP called "How Far is Too Far? Facing Self-censors and Publishing Censors When Writing About Coming of Age for Young Adults" on Friday, March 2 from noon to 1:15 p.m. My co-presenters will be Ann Angel, author of the 2011 YALSA non-fiction award winner Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing; Ricki Thompson, author of City of Cannibals; and Daniel Krauss, ALA’s 2012 Odyssey winner for his novel Rotters. For a preview of what we'll be discussing, click the link on the right and go to Pirate Tree for some comments on censorship.  Read More 

Peter Salomon, in his blog Peter Adam Salomon: Keyboard and Camera, does snappy Wednesday author interviews. I'm excited to be the interviewee for the week of January 18th.

Look for Peter's first book, Henry Franks, due out from Flux in September of 2012.

I'm thrilled to have Blood and Flowers be one of the nominees for the Mock Printz Award from Maricopa County, Arizona. The other nominees are all wonderful books and I'm honored to be a part of this list.