Welcome 2

Available March 12, 2013

Hello, lovely readers, and thanks for visiting my website!  Hopefully you’ve stopped by because you’ve read one of my books, or would like to (please do!), or because you were looking for one of my pseudonyms (Tamara Summers? Heather Williams?) and now you’re wondering who I am.  Or maybe because you saw me on Jeopardy! a few years ago!  :-)  I write under several different names, so I hope you’ll click around the website to find all my booksrelated sites, FAQs, and my very rambly TV- and baby-obsessed blog.

My most recent projects are a trilogy called The Menagerie which I wrote with my sister, and my big epic five-book dragon series Wings of Fire, which has a thrilling TRAILER!, so I hope you’ll check that excitement out.  :-)  And then carry on to find out more about Wings of Fire book one and book two, read the Prophecy, or view the awesome map of The World of Pyrrhia – and don’t forget to check out Scholastic’s great site for a Which Dragonet Are You? quiz.

The amazing Wings of Fire artwork throughout this site (apart from the map) was done by Joy Ang, and it’s kind of the most glorious thing I’ve ever seen. Thank you, Joy!

And a million thank yous to Beth at Cincinnati Media, who made this shiny website possible with her speed and brilliance. Yay Beth!

Art by Joy Ang

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Books of Wonder Event!

Hello everyone!

I am very excited to let you all know that I’ll be back at Books of Wonder in New York City for an author event THIS SATURDAY!!  May 25!!  From 12-2pm!  Mark your calendars and please come!  I’ll be talking with several other awesome middle grade adventure authors, including my sparkling and talented sister.  :)  Hooray!  So come prepared with LOTS of questions for her!  (Mwa ha ha!)

Behold all the authors and shiny books that will be there!  Ooo, I want them all!

I’ll be saying something undoubtedly witty and fascinating about Wings of Fire and The Menagerie, plus signing books (huzzah!).  And if you buy Wings of Fire books one and two while you’re there, you’ll be all ready for book THREE, The Hidden Kingdom, when it comes out three days later, on May 28!!!

This book is SO BEAUTIFUL I can hardly stand it.  Glorious rainforest dragons!  So pretty!  Hooray!

Doesn’t Glory look menacing and brilliant and strong and marvelous?  And just wait until you see the book four cover, which is also absolutely amazing.  (Well, if you do some searching, you might be able to find it online!  And I’ll post it here soon too, I promise.)  Thank you thank you, Scholastic design team!  :)

So don’t forget!  Saturday, May 25!  Books of Wonder in New York City!  Noon!

MAYBE there will be a FABULOUS PRIZE for the first person who comes up and tells me they read about the event right here on this blog!  (Maybe that prize will be a three-days-early copy of book three!)  (I’m officially putting Kari in charge of figuring out who wins, mwa ha ha.)

Hope to see you all there!  Yay Books of Wonder!  Yay books!

Quote of the Day:  “A Chinaman of the T’ang Dynasty — and, by which definition, a philosopher — dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher.” — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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