Malinda Lo

Hello blog readers! I have to tell you that I’m going on a brief blogging hiatus. Basically, I’m on deadline for my next novel, Huntress, and that will be followed by a trip to the East Coast (I’ll be doing some Ash events and some personal travel, too). So, while it really, really pains me ... More→

A couple of weeks ago I got together with some friends for a Julia Child night, in honor of the movie Julie & Julia. We made three dishes, all from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. For the first course, we had fish mousse: Looks a little weird, eh? Yeah, that’s a mousse ... More→

Recently on SF Signal’s Mind Meld, a bunch of writers answered the question What book introduced you to fantasy? The responses reminded me of so many great fantasy novels I remember reading in my childhood that I’m shamelessly stealing their topic and answering it for myself! And because I can’t pick just one, here are ... More→

Today I have a few unrelated news items to share. First, if you’re a librarian, the 2009 Debutantes (of which I am one) have a fantastic giveaway for you! To celebrate Teens Read Week, the YA and MG authors of Debut 2009 are giving away a 46 book set of their debut novels to ONE ... More→

Last week I decided to try, again, to recreate my mom’s hongshao rou, or red-cooked pork. (I’ve written about previous attempts here.) To do so, I googled “hongshao rou” and “red-cooked pork” (the literal translation of the Chinese phrase) to see what other people had done. Most of the recipes did not resemble the one ... More→

I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here. This question comes from my editor, Kate Sullivan, who asked me this: In class, we’d sit for hours dissecting the symbolism in a novel, and I always wondered if we were stretching for meaning or if the author actually ... More→