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MASTERMINDS NOMINATED FOR JOHN SPRAY MYSTERY AWARD

Great news from Canada! MASTERMINDS has been nominated for the John Spray Mystery Award! The list of nominated books is STACKED! CHECK IT OUT!

READ AN EXCERPT FROM JINGLE

First you admired the cover. Now read the excerpt. The multi-million-dollar Star of Prague is missing and The Man With The Plan is the prime suspect. After all, it was Griffin and his team who concocted a heist to steal a rare baseball card worth nearly as much. If you only read one book with […]

TWO MORE BRUNO & BOOTS MOVIES COMING TO YTV!

Never underestimate the power of a 7th grade English assignment! It’s been 40 years, and mine keeps chugging along. Thanks to the amazing success of BRUNO & BOOTS: GO JUMP IN THE POOL, YTV is bringing two new movies to the small screen – BRUNO & BOOTS: THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING AT MACDONALD HALL and […]

IT’S SLACKER WEEK IN THE WASHINGTON POST!

Just a friendly reminder that this is SLACKER week in the Washington Post’s KidsPost Summer Book Club. There’s never been a better time to discover your inner underachiever! Get all the details HERE!

HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

Those of you in the northeast don’t need to hear from me that it’s HOT out there. I’ve been keeping cool by staying in the air conditioning and writing. That’s why there’s so much new stuff coming in the next school year, like JINGLE, my holiday-themed Swindle Mystery (in September) and MASTERMINDS: PAYBACK, the third […]

GRAND CANYON READER AWARD GETS HYPNOTIC!

Great news – THE HYPNOTISTS has been nominated for the Grand Canyon Reader Award! Thank you, Arizona – and get ready for a mind-bending experience!

SWINDLE WILL BE FEATURED ON iBOOKS THIS SUMMER

Great news – SWINDLE will be featured on iBooks as part of the Scholastic Summer Reading program – and at a special super-low price. It’s a great way to catch up on the series in advance of the release of JINGLE – the 8th book in the series – this coming fall. And, of course, […]

SLACKER FEATURED IN THE WASHINGTON POST!

Great news! SLACKER has been selected for The Washington Post‘s KidsPost summer reading program, “Laughing Matters.” Which it does, so thanks for getting it right, KidsPost! CHECK IT OUT HERE – SLACKER along with seven other awesome  books by writers like Carl Hiaasen. And read something funny this summer!

THE OFFICIAL JINGLE COVER REVEAL

Okay, I predicted it when I knew the next SWINDLE book would be holiday-themed. But the reality of Luthor in a Santa suit is beyond my wildest dreams (or possibly nightmares). Only Scrooge wouldn’t laugh. I can’t wait to see how SWINDLE fans react when they see JINGLE …

MASTERMINDS WINS SILVER BIRCH AWARD

In this glorious spot overlooking the sparkling waters of Lake Ontario, MASTERMINDS won the 2016 Silver Birch Award. As you can see, a few thousand clones of criminal masterminds turned up to witness the occasion. (Well, actually, not all of them are cloned from full-fledged masterminds, so we had to include the clones of some […]