Meg Loves Josie!

March 11th, 2010

I know, I know, I’m horribly late with my post today, and I’m going to let you down even further with something short. In my defense, I had to run around quite a bit today, trying to get things done before I leave for Bologna (one week from tonight!), and helping a friend.
But I [...]

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Winners!

February 10th, 2010

It was a tough decision, but Intern Jenny and I looked at all your entries for last week’s contest to win copies of Albatross and Scarlett Fever, and the winners are…
Emily for Scarlett Fever, for her inspired role on Project Runway, and Amy B. for Albatross for her Star Wars color guard performance!
Emily and [...]

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Behind The Book – ALBATROSS

February 2nd, 2010

One of the popular responses to my blog post asking you guys what you’d like to see more of here was more posts by my clients. With this exciting new feature “Behind The Book”, starting today, I’m excited to oblige. I may be stealing a bit from John Scalzi’s excellent “The Big Idea” [...]

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Pub Day (x2!)

February 1st, 2010

Congrats to Josie Bloss and Maureen Johnson, whose latest novels — Albatross and Scarlett Fever, respectively — were released today. To celebrate, I’m having another contest!
As you may have read in Josie’s interview on the Flux website, music plays a part in Albatross, just as it did in Band Geek Love and Band Geeked [...]

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A “Wrench”ing review for ALBATROSS

January 18th, 2010

It’s been a morning of exciting news, what with the announcements of the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz, plus all the other awards from ALA Midwinter, but I’m excited on a personal level to share the following review from Kirkus for Albatross by Josie Bloss:
Music geeks walk the fine line between love and [...]

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