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Travels, Part 2
This post has been a long time coming, but I do still want to talk about some of the trips I took last fall. One of the things I’ve loved most about my writing career has been the opportunity to travel, to meet new people and have wonderful experiences I wouldn’t otherwise get to have.…
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4th Annual Writing for Charity Event
Next month, I’ll be critiquing at the Writing for Charity workshop. This annual charity event keeps growing and improving, and I’m pleased to be a part of it once again. They’ve made a few changes to the format, but attendees will still have the opportunity to have their work critiqued by one of Utah’s own…
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More claymation!
Another wonderful fan-made book trailer for The Clockwork Three in claymation, and again I find myself amazed at the talent and creativity.
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An Edgar Nomination for Icefall
Just a quick note with some really cool Icefall news. Pretty soon, I hope to do another post about the travel I did in the fall, as well as a belated New Year kind of thing where I talk about my writing goals for the upcoming year. But in the meantime, I’m really excited to…
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Infinity Ring
I’ve recently mentioned a secret project I’ve been involved with, and I am excited to finally announce it. But before I talk about it, The New York Times just ran a piece on it, which I would recommend reading first. You can find it here. If you want to track down the print version, it’s…
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Parents’ Choice, and a few more Icefall reviews
Some more good news and reviews have been coming in for Icefall. First, it was recently announced that Icefall has been given the 2011 Parents’ Choice Gold Award in the Fiction category! I’m honored and grateful. Icefall is sharing the award with Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck, and there are some other great titles on the lists,…
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Images of Icefall
Writers often use a variety of tricks to get into the stories they’re writing, things that help us to enter the world of the story and make it real. For example, some writers clip pictures from magazines and other places to help them visualize characters or settings. Others use music, a song that perfectly and…
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Claymation! Plus, Scholastic HQ.
Just a couple of videos today. The first is a book trailer that a fan made for The Clockwork Three. In claymation! I love that the door to Alice’s cabin is yellow, just like in the book. Now that’s attention to detail! The second video is of the Scholastic headquarters in New York City. Having…
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Travels, part 1
I’ve been doing a fair amount of traveling recently to promote Icefall. The first trip was to the Baltimore Book Festival in Maryland. Having lived in Maryland for several years, it felt a bit like going home. I stayed near the Inner Harbor, a place I really liked as a kid, especially the National Aquarium…
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Autumn at Sundance
Just some photos from a trip to see the fall leaves at Sundance. We rode the “scenic lift,” which in the wintertime is a “ski lift.” At one point the lift passed over a couple of moose, which was pretty cool. I love autumn, and here in Utah it’s always over much too quickly… …