Yay! Sarah Prineas's book The Magic Thief is officially released today! (We snagged a copy at WisCon, but now everyone else can buy it too!) It's a super fun book with a really engaging protagonist and tons of magical fun (plus biscuits and shapeshifting). Check it out, and read it to your kids! (I will, once River's old enough to enjoy books he's not allowed to chew on.)

I'm feeling a bit burned-out on writing, so I'm pretty much taking the week off, freelance necessities aside. If I feel the urge to write fiction, I will, but I won't force it. (Naturally, since I decided this yesterday, I've been having tons of ideas for stories and for the fifth and sixth Marla books, which I really hope I get to write. In the sixth book I think Marla will go to Hawai'i. I see shark gods in her future! And, almost certainly, an encounter with my character Reva from my story "From Around Here". It would be so very awesome.) Instead of writing, I'll be trying to get the Flytrap website updated with info about the new issue, and send out contributor/review/subscriber copies by the end of the weekend!

Here's a review of Poison Sleep. ("With a headstrong protagonist, great genre sensibilities, and a story that is told briskly and very well, Pratt's Poison Sleep is thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining novel." I love reviews with quotable chunks!)