Malinda Lo

Earlier this week I followed the link to an article at The Appendix, Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’€™s The World Until Yesterday (I think I owe a hat tip to Kate Elliott for this), and it was fascinating reading for me, an anthropology Ph.D. dropout. It’s about biologist Jared Diamond’s most recent book, The World Until ... More→

Over on tumblr, satyrandsiren asked: ’ello! Just curious. How many hours in a day do you spend writing? ’ello back! The number of hours I spend writing every day depends on a lot of things. When I’m in the rough drafting stage, I try to reach a certain number of words on the days that ... More→

Over on tumblr, endlessdreamer13 asked: I keep worrying about word count and length. I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help but worry that the finished product will be too short. It’s an upper middle grade that’s currently 25k with about 4 chapters left. How do you stop focusing on the finished product? and I ... More→

Five years ago today, the thing I’d been dreaming of my whole life happened. Five years ago today, my agent, Laura Langlie (who had been representing me for only a couple of months at that time), told me that Little, Brown Books for Young Readers had made an offer on my as-yet-unpublished manuscript, Ash. I’d ... More→

Last month, when I blogged about Heteronormativity, fantasy, and Bitterblue, the issue of a writer’s “agenda” popped up more than once, as in: Did Kristin Cashore have a liberal agenda when writing Bitterblue, and was it too obvious? Those questions can obviously be extended to all writers and books: Did the writer have an agenda ... More→

I have some cool news I’ve been very excited to share with you! This coming August 2013, I’ll be teaching the Genre and YA Fiction workshop at the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices. What is this? Here are some details from the press release: The Lambda Literary Foundation is proud to ... More→