Malinda Lo

I turned in the third draft of my next novel, Adaptation, yesterday (it comes out in fall 2012), and as usual after turning in a big revision, I feel a little at loose ends. So I’ve decided to assuage my post-revision separation anxiety by sharing a little bit of the book with you … tomorrow ... More→

1. A new short story! Yesterday, Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands and Teeth) announced the sale of an anthology she is editing, Foretold, which will be coming out in the fall of 2012. From Publishers Marketplace: NYT bestselling author Carrie Ryan, ed.’s FORETOLD, an anthology about prophecies and predictions featuring stories by Laini Taylor, ... More→

Since Huntress was published, I’ve noticed that some reviews mention that the reader didn’t realize that many aspects of the fantasy world in the book are based in Chinese and Japanese culture, or that they only realized that because of the cover copy or the cover itself. This is really interesting and makes me think ... More→

Some weird things are happening here on my blog. You can’t see it unless you look at the source code, but I’ve been hacked. It doesn’t seem to affect the external appearance much, but it is a problem and I’m working to resolve it. That means that things might get a little wonky here over ... More→

Since I was out of commission during revision for six weeks, I’ve got a whole lot of things stored up to announce. Here we go: I was interviewed over at Girls of Summer, which is a great blog founded by two writers that focuses on 18 books to read this summer (including Huntress!). Here’s a ... More→

On Monday I finished the latest draft of my next novel, currently titled Adaptation.1 I say “latest” because it’s already been revised once before, but that was a very quick and dirty revise to get it in shape to submit to my editor. So what draft is this? Maybe the third? I don’t know, because ... More→