Paul Tremblay, the author of the recently released A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS and I have a lot in common. We’re both teachers (in prisons),...

Prepare yourself for a moment of snobbery from me. Ready? It’s not very often a book makes me laugh. I mean, I find books funny, but an...

One day in the near future, I’m going to run into Lance Rubin at a conference or convention or, who knows, a prison yard, and when I see...

Last week I had the pleasure of driving to Lexington, Kentucky to have dinner and attend a book reading/signing with my friend Daryl...

Okay, look, I get it, I mention Andrew Smith on here a little too much than is healthy. In fact, I’m expecting a cease and desist letter...

Cori McCarthy could kick your ass. I’m not saying she will, but she probably could if she wanted to. Because there’s an anger in...

When I started writing, I discovered pretty quickly that I had a lot to learn. I still remember Sam W. Anderson holding up the short...

Okay, let’s get to it–Geoff Herbach, the author of the three novels making up the Felton Reinstein Trilogy, is amazing. Wait, I jumped...

So far this year I’ve read 35 books. (Don’t judge me…three kids keeps reading time down a bit). A good many of these are YA, some are...

I’ll keep this simple: If you have a 7-11 year old you read to, you must immediately buy Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses: The...

There’s a heinous crime being committed in the world of writing today, and it’s this–Andrew Smith isn’t selling millions of books. Okay,...

So it looks like it’s been six months since I’ve written here. I’ll bring everyone up to date: I just finished my novel, The Water Tower...

Writing Update: So, about a month and a half ago I finished the sixth (and hopefully final) draft of Lucky Town, my 74K YA novel about a...

Been away awhile. I suck at this blogging thing. In better news though, the (novel) writing is going well, so there’s that. Some...

Remember that feeling you got when you first read Ray Bradbury’s The October Country or maybe Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts, thinking,...

First, a quick thing about me – I wrote “Plink” two (maybe three) years ago. It’s always been my favorite of my short stories. I sent...

In prep for WHC in Austin next week, I’ve spent my month reading as many books by the other writers who will be there. Here’s a quick...