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		<title>So, it&#8217;s been a while since I blogged&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past eight months or so, I&#8217;ve finished three books. The Lost Kingdom (which comes out later this year on September 1st), Cave of Wonders, my installment in the Infinity Ring series (which also comes out on September 1st), and the first book in my Quantum League series (which won&#8217;t come out till next spring). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover reveal! Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, everyone! I&#8217;m really excited to finally share the cover for Cave of Wonders, book 5 in the amazing Infinity Ring series from Scholastic!

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This story was a ton of fun to write, even though I had some rather large shoes to fill (namely those belonging to the giant feet of James Dashner, Carrie Ryan, and Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infinity Ring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Hey, everyone! I&#8217;m relieved and excited to say that I have finished my installment in the Infinity Ring series, which is book #5, and will be out this fall. This series has been so fun to work on. Books 1 and 2, by James Dashner and Carrie Ryan, have both been bestsellers, and I&#8217;m so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Kingdom Cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really excited to share the cover for my next middle-grade novel, The Lost Kingdom! This novel is significant to me on a personal level, because an earlier draft of it was the first piece of novel-length fiction I&#8217;d ever attempted. It was how I first attracted the attention of my agent, Stephen Fraser, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bunch of stuff!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been very, very busy lately, and I&#8217;m just poking my head up for a moment to say that yes, I am alive, before dropping back under. (Although. I am on twitter, now, and I am able to update there a lot more frequently than here, FYI.) In the past few weeks I&#8217;ve written the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can almost feel the fur coats&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, after we&#8217;d had a heavy snowfall, I took the dogs for a walk in the woods. The forest had a very Narnia feel about it. I imagined Mr. Tumnus with his parcels and little umbrella around every tree (and it also made me think that I need to get a lamppost like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A couple of announcements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to let you all know that I will have a second fiction series beginning in 2014! From Publishers Weekly:
Donna Bray at HarperCollins&#8217;s Balzer + Bray imprint has acquired a three-book middle grade SF trilogy, Infinite Winter, by Edgar and PEN Award-winner Matthew J. Kirby. In his new project, the daughter of a climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sextet on an Ice Epic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I meant to post this a long time ago, but somehow forgot. (I say &#8220;somehow,&#8221; but really there&#8217;s no &#8220;somehow&#8221; when you forget things as often as I do.) You  may remember Alessandro, the young musician who composed a quartet inspired by The Clockwork Three. Well, he has done the same for Icefall, and I continue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PEN Center USA Award, and the first snowfall of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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A few weeks ago, Scholastic was kind enough to send me to Los Angeles to receive the PEN Center USA Award for Icefall. I have to say, I think this was one of the most intimidating events I&#8217;ve been to. It&#8217;s partly because I was there alone and didn&#8217;t know anyone. It&#8217;s partly because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Icefall in German</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I received copies of the German translation of Icefall. I think it&#8217;s a really interesting take, and I particularly like the tattoos on Solveig&#8217;s hand and face. I had never pictured her that way, but I think it&#8217;s pretty cool. It&#8217;s also fun to see how widely interpretations of the material can vary, when [...]]]></description>
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