Two Great Things

I have a new daughter, her name is Ivy. She was ten pounds at birth. Oof.

The Geektastic party this Saturday! I've heard it's the hot ticket item this year at BEA. Only downside is that it's at a bowling alley, so I may be forced to reveal the terrible secret that I have to wear man-size bowling shoes. Like, really man-sized.

Update

Ok, things have been a little slow in the 'news' department lately. Here's what's going on in my part of northern Brooklyn:

1. Today I emailed off a manuscript that has been a Work in Progress for eight years. It's a book that means a lot to me. A lot a lot. Very much lot. :)

2. My midgrade fantasy series has yet to find a home. :(

3. I am going to magically produce an offspring in May.

I think, barring finding actual life on Mars, that's about all the exciting news we expect around here for this week. Stay tuned, though. You never know.

(Last week, as a herald of spring, a Mr. Softee truck started playing its creepy melody outside our window at 11:15 PM. I went outside to watch what I assumed was the inevitable drug deal, but unless it was incredibly subtle, all I saw was a passerby getting an actual swirly softserve)

GEEKTASTIC!

It's here! I got me an ARC (advance reading copy) of the fantastic anthology edited by the incomparable Cecil Castellucci and Holly Black!

I would scan the table of contents to show you how One of Us by moi, Tracy Lynn, is really in there. But that would be weird. Right?

So you're going to probably have to wait until August to buy a copy, but check out a preview on Jennifer Hubert's Reading Rants blog here!

Welome to My New Website!

It was time for a redesign at the ol' Messy Desk. Whatcha all think? Don't be shy!


I was going to have a launch party, and contests, and stuff, but the nineties are pretty much dead and buried. Instead I'll toast you with some of my limited-batch pumpkin infused vodka, and get around to auctioning off half a bag of candy corn sometime later in the week.

(the other half is the second place prize to whichever of three friends actually get around to reading my latest WIP resubmit)

(first prize is me not nagging them)

So welcome, and click around!

PS Special thanks and kudos to designer extraordinaire Tara Sinn!