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FLORIDA JUMPS ON THE “HYPNOTIC” BANDWAGON
Mesmerizing news from Florida: THE HYPNOTISTS has been nominated for Sunshine State Young Readers Award. And it only took a little “suggestion …” from me. (Seriously, when they say “Don’t look into his eyes,” they mean DON’T look into his eyes!) However it happened, I hope the readers of Florida are entranced! PS: This is […]
UNGIFTED WINS IN OREGON!
The little robot that could is on a roll. UNGIFTED just won the Oregon Readers Choice Award for Middle School! Psyched, psyched, psyched! Thank you, readers of Oregon!
UNGIFTED SELECTED FOR BAM KIDS BOOK CLUB
Great news! Books a Million has chosen UNGIFTED for their kids book club in May. Honest! CHECK IT OUT HERE. Tin Man is a bundle of circuits, incapable of getting psyched about this. I, however, am all too human. So: hooray!
AN AWESOME LOCAL SHOUT-OUT FROM LI PULSE
Check out this great profile from Long Island Pulse magazine. (Inside info: the writer is a former fan who actually sold attack jelly on the streets of New York City when he was a kid. I never would have thought of that – not even when I was writing NO COINS PLEASE.) CLICK HERE TO […]
UNGIFTED LANDS IN CHINA
Check it out – the latest stop on UNGIFTED’s international tour of translations is China. Here’s the cover. (Not sure what the gold seal means. Did I win something and they forgot to tell me???)
JACKPOT HONORED BY BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
More awesome honor news – JACKPOT, the 6th book in the SWINDLE series, has been chosen as one of the best books of the year by Bank Street College of Education. Psyched, psyched, psyched about this! It’s especially nice to see a novel from deep into a series get some recognition, which doesn’t happen very […]
UNGIFTED WINS COLORADO CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD!
News flash: The kids of Colorado have chosen UNGIFTED for the 2015 Colorado Children’s Book Award! Woo-hoo! Tin Man and I will be in Denver to accept the award in person. (Well, maybe not Tin Man. You know, unless we can find an airline with a Robots Fly Free policy.)
BEST AUTHOR INTRO EVER!!!
Courtesy of the awesome Marinette Middle School in Marinette, WI. Picture this: the songs stylings of Anthony Lamalfa, absolutely live, with 550 kids singing backup. Honestly, I’m not sure how I mustered the courage to give my presentation after that. It was a seriously tough act to follow! CLICK HERE TO WATCH
TITLE AND COVER REVEALED FOR BOOK 3 OF THE HYPNOTISTS
Attention HYPNOTISTS fans! The time has finally come to reveal the title and cover for the stunning conclusion of this awesome trilogy. Book 3: THE DRAGONFLY EFFECT will be coming out in July. In THE DRAGONFLY EFFECT, Jax has been recruited by the U.S. Army’s Hypnotic Warfare Research Department. But Dr. Elias Mako has escaped from prison, and this […]
SCENES FROM THE MASTERMINDS TOUR
I’m back from the masterful MASTERMINDS tour, exhausted and super-psyched. I visited amazing schools and libraries, fantastic bookstores, and met huge numbers of freshly-minted MASTERMINDS fans. The book is still less than two weeks old and has already begun to creep onto bestseller lists around the country! Here are some scenes from the tour: With […]