I got an interesting e-mail this week from a composer in Los Angeles. He told me that he occasionally receives phone calls and e-mails from ...

When I announced the 13RW Going On 30 contest, I said that if Thirteen Reasons Why made it onto the New York Times bestseller list for a 3...

Last week, JoanMarie and I went to Owen's Music...just to look. And whaddaya know! They were having a really good sale. So, we said yes...

According to the most recent list, Thirteen Reasons Why has been a New York Times bestseller for 29 weeks. In other words...it's going ...

I've always loved covers that prominently display a single object!

I’ve been hearing from a lot of new authors devastated by online reviews. And let me tell ya: Been there! It’d be one thing if the revie...

Finally, Clay gets his own cover!

On Saturday, JoanMarie and I took a boat trip to the Channel Islands. I'm embarrassed to admit, but I completely forgot there were a w...

So many things to celebrate this week! Monday was my favorite new holiday . In fact, it was the first time anyone's ever celebrated it....

When I got to my hotel in Longview, Washington, the high school library club had a giftbag waiting for me. Can you say sugar high ? The nex...

Googling yourself is a nasty habit. Researchers have yet to determine whether or not it causes blindness, but plenty of fellow-writers tell ...

This past weekend, on my annual trek to Writer's Day in San Gabriel, I had many exciting moments. Most of them were due to being excite...

I've never been a country music fan. I appreciate it, and there are a few songs I can get into, but it never fully connected with me. Be...

Cover: Cover with sash: What does it say? What does it say???

Every so often, a reader gives me their impression of my book in a way which deepens my own understanding of what I wrote. A reader in Flori...

I did an interview recently where the interviewer expressed concern about the types of books that were popular with children and teens today...

Have you ever been a fan of a band, and when they got really famous you felt special because you liked them way before almost anyone else? (...

If you’ve been snooping around since the Old Blog days, you may remember that my wife has been going in and out of a studio for over a year...

As of today, I've distributed 31 Thirteen Reasons Why book club packets to various parts of the country. Each packet includes bookmark...

This past week, I was hangin' out in Mississippi at the Oxford Conference for the Book . Oxford is an amazing town. It looks like the s...