I'm Diversifying My Reading!

Over at Diversity In YA (an awesome site devoted to young adult and middle grade novels that celebrate diversity), they have a summer reading challenge on the go.


It's the Diversify Your Reading Summer Challenge, and I am totally going to play! The mission is: "to read diverse MG and YA books throughout the summer (you choose the books!) and write an essay (at least 500 words) about your experience." Sounds good to me! I already enjoy reading books with LGBT characters and characters of color--I missed out on these books almost entirely while growing up, and I'm making up for lost time now. Who else is in?

I Can Haz Guest Post?

I was asked by one of the writers of a supa sweet blog, YA Highway, to write a guest post on Great Characters With Disabilities in YA and MG (young adult and middle grade) novels. I'm rawther pleased with how it came out. Go! Read!

Also, for no specific reason, here are two super rad photos from 2010's Peak-to-Peak Pedal. In both shots I am the one in the red helmet, fourth in the line.

Hello from my never-updated blog!

Dear Universe,
I will try to update my blog more.
Sincerely,
Sarah

I just got some great pictures back from the 2010 Peak To Peak Pedal and I will try to post them soon!

My current stats, for the curious: 14 query letters, 3 rejections thus far.
Querying: Micah On Mumbly Peak, MG fantasy
Revising: Snow Big Deal, MG contemp
Finishing sometime soon: The Third Arjuna, YA fantasy

So I let the blog die because I was so caught up in writing other stuff. Namely, mad revising of a middle-grade story about adaptive skiing, and writing a completely unrelated adult fantasy novel. The MG story is done and polished and I'm actually writing an actual query letter for it (meep!), and the fantasy novel second draft is done and in the hands of beta readers as we speak! And a new YA fantasy novel is in the works. Exciting.

I'm also signed up for my second ever Peak-to-Peak Pedal! More info to come on that.

In other news, this song (and video) fills me with an inordinate quantity of love and smushy feelings. Watch it and your day will be better!