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HTDYF Contest adorableness
Posted by Justine at 0:23, May 9th, 2009 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Praising, What's your fairy? | 4 Comments »
My favourite fairy so far
Posted by Justine at 6:13, December 27th, 2008 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, What's your fairy? | 18 Comments »
North American HTDYF tour winds up (Oz tour begins?)
Posted by Justine at 9:40, November 14th, 2008 under Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Love is Hell, New York City/USA, Reading, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia, What's your fairy? | 11 Comments »
I hate steam heating
Does it really need to come on at 4AM and not let up until 9AM? Why does it have to sound like banshees being tortured by trolls? What's with the even LOUDER clanging? That's almost, but not quite, like the bell that tolls for thee? Or me in this case. Am I ever going to get a good night's sleep again? Stupid NYC with it's stupid steam heating. I don't ever remember it being this loud before. Is it because I have a book due on Friday?! I'm so TIRED! Waaaaaahhhhh!! I wish I had a horrible-noise dampening fairy. /whinge Yes, I am aware that steam heating is super energy efficient and good for the planet. So, no, I don't really hate it. But if ...Posted by Justine at 8:21, November 12th, 2008 under New York City/USA, What's your fairy?, Whingeing | 8 Comments »
Lots and lots of fairies
Posted by Justine at 11:54, October 27th, 2008 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sport, What's your fairy? | 7 Comments »
A Few More Fairies + Michigan week
Posted by Justine at 0:00, September 29th, 2008 under Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, New York City/USA, Travelling, What's your fairy?, Young Adult literature | 7 Comments »
Yup, more fairies from YA luminaries
Posted by Justine at 0:05, September 24th, 2008 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, What's your fairy?, Young Adult literature | 1 Comment »
More fairies + two events this week
Because you deserve it, some more YA author fairies for your delectation: Penni Russon, author of the wondrous Undine trilogy, has a most useful fairy: I have a voice recognition fairy - with her help I can always pick out celebrity voices in animations. As you might imagine this is a very useful skill and has served me well on numerous occasions. I wish I had a zen master fairy to help with the parenting of the children. Lauren Myracle, author of the amazing and terrifying Bliss, had this to say when I asked her what her fairy is: My Starbucks fairy simply loves Starbucks and steers me toward one EVERY DAY, regardless of any opinion *I* might have on the ...Posted by Justine at 0:00, September 22nd, 2008 under Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, What's your fairy? | 3 Comments »
What’s your fairy? (Redux)
A while back I asked my faithful blog readers what their fairy is or what fairy they wanted. Twas a popular post so in honour of the imminent publication of my latest book, How To Ditch Your Fairy, set in a world where almost everyone has a personal fairy, I asked these questions of a tonne of writers. I'll be sharing their answers with you over the next few months. Here's what John Green, multiple-award winning author and all-round good guy, had to say: The fairy I most wish I had at the moment is the Dog Whisperer fairy, because then I would understand why Willy just peed inside. I seem to have something of a Spare Change fairy. I ...Posted by Justine at 22:04, September 15th, 2008 under Bloggery, Book tour, How To Ditch Your Fairy, What's your fairy? | 34 Comments »
What’s Your Fairy?
My new novel, How To Ditch Your Fairy, is set in a world where almost everyone has a personal fairy. My protag, Charlie, has a parking fairy (which she hates because she's only fourteen and doesn't drive and doesn't like cars), her best friend has a clothes-shopping fairy, and her arch enemy has an all-boys-will-like-you fairy. So what's your fairy? Or what fairy would you like to have?Posted by Justine at 10:48, February 18th, 2008 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, What's your fairy? | 62 Comments »

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