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Running Wild online bookshop features Animal Husbandry

My first fiction collection, Animal Husbandry (and Other Fictions) hits bookstores on September 10 and is available for preorder wherever you buy books. That includes your local bookstore via Bookshop.org, and my publisher Running Wild Press has a whole online bookstore there. Preorders are a huge help, especially for fiction, and I’m happy to do […]

Checking in on books while abroad

I’ve been a little quiet on the book front lately. Spent much of the weekend reviewing the final proofs of Civic Minded, but I was also catching up on a ton of things after being abroad for three weeks in Singapore and Malaysia. While in Singapore, I did get to see that two of my […]

Fresh reads for Spring 2024

My nonfiction publisher, Lerner Books, has several good nonfiction books out this spring (including Votes of Confidence 3rd Edition, of course). That’s why it posted this cool roundup of fresh nonfiction reads for teens and young adults (and, really, anyone who wants to learn more about these subjects). An excerpt: Welcome to our Spring 2024 […]

Some short-story collection recommendations

With Animal Husbandry (and Other Fictions) available for preorder wherever you buy books, Shepherd asked me to make a list of five of my favorite short-story collections. There are, of course, far too many to choose from — so I decided to recommend five collections by novelists whose work I really like: Neil Gaiman, Rebecca […]

Votes of Confidence makes another “best of” list

Once again, Votes of Confidence 3rd Edition has made a cool best of list. In this case, it’s the Best New Nonfiction for Children and Teenagers list from Walden Pond Books. An excerpt: The best nonfiction books entertain as well as teach!  These are books that will excite curious children and teenagers about their favorite […]

Animal Husbandry highlighted in Locus

Because my upcoming short-story collection Animal Husbandry (and Other Fictions) includes some speculative-fiction pieces among its sixteen stories, Locus Magazine featured it in this article about new books in the genre.

Civic Minded book launch at 57th Street Books

We have an official book launch for my upcoming book Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know About the US Government. It will be held on October 1 — the day the book hits bookstores, though you can preorder it already — at 57th Street Books in Chicago. It will be a moderated conversation led by […]