Malinda Lo

About this time last year, I made some reading resolutions for 2010. I enjoyed the experiment so much that I thought I’d do it again! So here are my reading resolutions for 2011: I will read the following four novels, and when I have read them, I will blog about them. Obviously I will read ... More→

The fourth and final novel I resolved to read in 2010 was Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Well, after making it through the first hundred pages, I decided to stop trying to read this book. For a while I felt like I should just keep going because I ... More→

Last weekend I attended the YALSA Literature Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The theme was Beyond Good Intentions: Diversity, Literature, and Teens, and I had a fantastic time meeting tons of YA librarians (you are a lively bunch to say the least!) and hanging out with fellow authors. On Friday I attended the preconference organized ... More→

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) was one of the four books I vowed to read in 2010. It took me quite a while to get to it. I started it more than a month ago, but discovered that I couldn’t really read it over lunch, which is where I do a lot ... More→

It’s been two weeks since the fabulous Sirens conference and I’m still thinking about it. That’s how great it was! Today I’m going to recap the roundtable I led, which was about “queerness and fairy tales.” A roundtable is not the same as a panel. It involves one person leading a discussion about a specific ... More→

Today I’m celebrating the official release of the paperback edition of Ash. *cue fanfare* Woohoo! What makes a celebration even better? Obviously, a giveaway! In honor of the fact that Ash is a fairy tale retelling, I’m giving away two different prize packs of fairy tales retold. Each pack includes a signed paperback copy of ... More→