For some reason, being stuck on the couch with a bag of ice on my knee makes me feel a lot more sociable. So hopefully I'll be around the blogosphere a bit more than I have lately. My old rule was that I'd blog once a week, and maybe I can get back to that, and to commenting on other blogs again. I'm kinda missing it. You're all very nice to put up with my comings and goings...

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So anyway, as charmingbillie pointed out, it's better, rhetorically, to get the bad news out of the way first, and then post the good news. So here it is!

(I hope this is not anticlimactic, after the big buildup...)


The first bit of good news is that I've sold three books to publisher Quercus in the UK. They published the Magic Thief books and have been all-around great to work with, and I'm thrilled that I get to continue working with them. This is the first foreign rights sale for the Crow book (still untitled) (and still under revision, too!).


The second bit of good news is that I've been invited to attend Bookaroo, a children's book festival in New Delhi, India. I'll be one of four "international" guests, who include Briton Anthony Horowitz, Canadian Wendy Orr (who wrote Nim's Island), and Australian Lian Tanner (whose book comes out in the US this fall). It's possible the books' distributor over there, Penguin-India, will have some things for me to do, too, so it'll be like a mini-tour. As you can imagine, I'm very excited about this! India!!

The other bit of good news is that my biceps are already looking buff from all this crutching around... Read the rest of this post