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Worst Christmas Gifts You Can Give

December 19, 2011

I wish I could say that I had to look long and hard to find these horrible gifts, but no. I’m apparently on the catalog list for crazy people, and I get dozens of Gifts-for-the-Bizarre magazines. Without further ado (because…

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Gifts not to give for Christmas

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How authors party

December 16, 2011

One of the fun things about being an author is getting to hang out with other authors and cool book people. Last week eight Arizona authors put on an author appreciation open house–which sounds like we were appreciating ourselves, but…

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And the winner is Jen

December 13, 2011

I’m letting Jadean know. You can contact me with your email address and I’ll pass it along to him. jrallisonfans at yahoo dot com

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eBook give-away and interview with a writer’s husband

December 7, 2011

I met Danyelle Leafty at a writer’s conference a couple years ago. A few days ago her husband emailed me and asked if I would like to interview her on my blog. I have to say I was impressed her…

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Your questions answered, plus a really cute dog

December 1, 2011

Want to win a copy of Slayers? Free Book Friday is giving away three copies.http://teens.freebookfriday.com/

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Saphira vs Tamerlane

November 14, 2011

Every once in awhile someone asks me why I made the dragons in Slayers vicious animals instead of magical best friends. It’s not that I don’t like the friendly, loyal dragons from Eragon. If I was allowed to have one…

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The bug-dragon connection–at least in my mind

November 7, 2011

Most story ideas don’t come to me whole and complete but are cobbled together from several incidents and thoughts. Slayers is that way. The first incident happened when I was fifth grade and had just moved to Silver Springs, Maryland.…

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Erasing Time Cover preview

November 4, 2011

I removed the cover at the request of my publisher (I still love it) I love this cover. It may be my all time favorite. (Although My Unfair Godmother is a close second.) I know I shouldn’t say things like…

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Your chance at immortality–or a great gift idea

October 29, 2011

The bidding is live! Have your name in one of my books–or in Brandon Mull’s, Shannon Hale’s, Kiersten White’s, Becca Fitzpatrick’s, Robin Brande’s–or all of them. All proceeds go to Kids Need to Read. Check it out at: http://stores.ebay.com/Kids-Need-to-Read Happy…

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More chances to win Slayers

October 24, 2011

Fire and Ice is hosting and kicking off the official blog tour for Slayers by C.J.Hill which will run today until Sunday. Each of the 7 blogs participating will be giving away one copy of the book so be sure…

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Immortality up for Auction

October 22, 2011

(Yeah, I almost wrote immorality up for auction which would have been something completely different and would probably cost you more.) Anyway, a bunch of authors including yours truly are auctioning off names to use in our books as a…