Today's blog will highlight my upcoming East Coast mini book tour, a LAYAS authors update plus a special guest, middle grade novelist EMILY ECTON! (Here's a photo of us and the cover of her latest book below!) Keep reading for more details...

Today's blog is all about DAVID YOO, my brother! His second novel, STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (Hyperion '08), launches today Tues. Sept. 30th in bookstores across the country! Read on to find out more...

Greetings from Los Angeles! I flew back yesterday from Chicago. As promised, here's the rest of my blog about the Andersons Bookshop Young Adult Literature Conference that I attended on Sat. 9/27/08, where I spoke on a panel called "New Voices" featuring me, Ingrid Law, and Cameron Tuttle. Keep reading for more...

Hi, super short "pre-blog" to announce I'll blog a huge detailed account of the Anderson Bookshop annual YA conference tomorrow. Gotta wake up at 4 a.m. for my flight back to LA. Until then, here's a teaser photo of my panel with awesome authors INGRID LAW and CAMERON TUTTLE. Stop by tomorrow for a full blog when I return to LA!

Namaste! That is an East Indian greeting meaning "The light within me bows to the light within you." It also is the name of an amazing school I visited today in Chicago for my book tour - the Namaste Charter School. How amazing is it? For starters, they grow their own wheatgrass!