We all know them--the kids who read fantasy novel after fantasy novel after fantasy novel. I was one of those kids--obsessed with the Chronicles of Narnia.  I read my favorite, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, thirteen times. (I have since read it to both of my children so I'm up to fifteen!) As a fantasy writer today, I have to acknowledge my debt to CS Lewis and to JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, another of my favorites. At the same time, Lewis and Tolkien would be the first to acknowledge their debt to much earlier sources… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Release Date: June 18, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0312380960
• ISBN (paperback): TBD                             

EYES LIKE STARS introduces Beatrice Shakespeare Smith. Behind the curtain at the Théâtre Illuminata, you can find the characters of every play ever written. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Théâtre by The Book--an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family--and she is about to lose them, and the only home she has ever known. The Author: Lisa Mantchev Location: Washington Lisa Mantchev wrote her first play in the fourth grade and… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
• Publisher: Flux
• Release Date: July 1, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): TBD
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she's Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don't exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn't bad enough, Gwen's on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she's scared he'll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves. When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen's home as their new… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Release Date: April 28, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061554742
• ISBN (paperback): 978-0061554749

Youngest and boldest of all the faeries of the Oak, Knife fearlessly battles the savage crows and other predators who threaten her dying people. But when she strikes up a forbidden friendship with a human named Paul, she arouses the wrath of the powerful Faery Queen herself. With the help of some unexpected allies, Knife sets out to solve the mystery of the Oakenfolk's missing magic - but she soon discovers that the truth may cost her everything... Also available in the UK as KNIFE in… Continue reading