A hasty update on various things before I run out the door to catch the ferry (I’m going to San Francisco, and I believe in public transportation!):

A new Notes & Queeries is up at AfterEllen.com. This month I wrote about a recent South of Nowhere episode in which Spencer comes out to her grandmother; it […]

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Last week, author Mitali Perkins posted her Ten Tips on Writing Race in Novels, which resulted from a lively discussion on her blog about whether authors should describe race at all. It’s been really interesting to me to read her tips. Like most readers, I’ve encountered the food-related descriptors (coffee-colored skin) and groaned. I’ve also […]

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For the past month I have been working on yet another major rewrite of Ash (hopefully the last big one!), and I just finished a feverish week of writing till midnight (midnight!) and drinking Diet Coke and not seeing any real people (OK, I saw them, but I didn’t talk to them!), and today I […]

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I’ve spent the last week on a semi-isolated writer’s retreat (OK, my girlfriend is here, and her lovely dog) working on yet another revision of Ash. The difference is, this one is required by my publisher. Eeek! Things are going as well as they can, though, so here’s a list of things I’ve written […]

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At the end of March I took a whirlwind trip to the East Coast, where I visited a bunch of friends, met my editor and agent for the first time in New York, attended the christening of my friend’s son, and stopped by Wellesley College to give a talk with Sarah Warn during their LesBiTrans […]

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Publishers Weekly has announced my book deal with Little, Brown!
Kate Sullivan at Little, Brown won out over four other houses for a debut YA novel by Malinda Lo titled Ash; Laura Langlie sold world rights (except Japan and U.K.) to two books. Ash is a retelling of Cinderella, only Ash doesn’t fall for Prince […]

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I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an offer from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to publish my novel, Ash, in the fall of 2009. I just announced it on AfterEllen.com, and more details will be published in the March 10 issue of Publishers Weekly. I’ll […]

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