Happy & Nappy
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »I received a nice email yesterday from a woman named Doret C, a baseball fan and bookseller from Atlanta, who writes a blog called TheHappyNappyBookseller. She wrote a review for Six Innings which you can read in full by clicking ...
Fan Mail Wednesday #2
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Fan Mail, Six Innings | No Comments »In what I hope will become a recurring feature -- Fan Mail Wednesday! -- I'll take comments and questions from actual fan mail and include my responses here. Aundrea S. writes via email: Dear James Preller, Hi, well I thought that your book ...
Unhappy
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Well, I'm having a lot of problems with artwork on this blog. Some shows up, some doesn't. I hate this kind of thing. My apologies. Hopefully this gets solved soon. In the meantime, I need to revise an upcoming novel, Bystander, ...
The Waiting
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade | No Comments »The waiting is the hardest part. Every day you see one more card. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart. The waiting is the hardest part. ...
Fan Mail #1
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Fan Mail | No Comments »In what I hope will become a recurring feature, I'll take questions from actual fan mail and include my answers here. * * * * * Jason asks, "Where do you get your ideas?" Ideas are everywhere and anywhere, Jason. They come from ...
Book Covers
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Along Came Spider | No Comments »Above, you should (maybe, possibly, hopefully) see the cover to my new hardcover book, Along Came Spider, due for publication this September (Scholastic, ages 8-12). Except, well, that used to be the cover until about three weeks ago. You see, ...
Skribblers Magazine
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »One of the central ideas for this blog is that I hope to communicate about what's going on right now. The life of a writer, I guess -- not that my life is so exciting or brillliant, but, um, it's ...
Remembering Craig
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »I often fill my books with little in-jokes, things that few people (if any) will notice. I guess that’s true of most writers. After I worked for a long time on individual character sketches, it came time to construct the ...
Experiment: Adding Art
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »This is the cover of my newest book, Six Innings. But basically, I'm just messing around with adding images. The art was done by a guy named Chris Sheban, who also did covers for Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tiger Rising (both by ...
Hello world!
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »This is the first post in my Blog New World. I'm just trying to figure out how this thing . . . goes! JP