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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 […]
MASTERMINDS IS OUT TOMORROW!!!
Hooray!!! Are there enough exclamation points for me to communicate just how excited I am to see this new trilogy hit the shelves? (And I hit the road on the MASTERMINDS tour if only it would stop snowing!) I’m just finishing up a revision of Book 2, which will be coming out this time next […]
CHECK OUT THIS STARRED REVIEW OF MASTERMINDS
Check out what the good people at Booklist had to say about MASTERMINDS, the first book of my latest trilogy, coming February 3rd. Woo-hoo! I’m so psyched for this new series! READ THE REVIEW
ATTENTION SWINDLE NATION: UNLEASHED IS UNLEASHED!
Happy New Year! In honor of 2015 – and to the dismay of Doberman experts everywhere – the SWINDLE team is back. Luthor is unleashed! In the seventh book in the series, the ex-guard dog has a dangerous new hobby – chasing cars. And no amount of dog-whispering from Savannah can do anything to stop […]
NEW NICKNAME ALERT????
If you’ve checked out my TOP TEN QUESTIONS page, you know that my favorite nickname dates back to sixth grade, when I was the G-Man. I’ve been waiting nearly forty years for another nickname that cool. Well, the nickname barrier that’s stood for all those decades might finally have been broken. Students from Independence Middle […]