Tag Archives: Osten Ard

[Newsletter]Smells Like Quarantine Spirit

Hello, my dears and darlings and isolated hamburgers. (MY DARLING, MY HAMBURGER was a young-adult novel by Paul Zindel from 1969. It’s something Deb and I commonly call each other.)

Just thought I’d bring you up to speed on what’s going on at our house, in my head, and with the overall progress of various books and other projects. Continue reading →

[Newsletter] Hollywood Ending

I’m currently working on the ending (which with me can mean I still have hundreds of pages to write) of The Navigator’s Children, book three of the current Osten Ard story. I’m always trying to balance what I know readers want—resolution, and at least some version of a happy ending—with the desire to keep things realistic, which means balancing the good with the bad. Continue reading →