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The Long Wait for Cress: 7 Coping Strategies

Cress is currently scheduled to be released on February 4, 2014. As of today, that means we have 263 still to go, and as frightening as that number seems, just think—that’s 101 days LESS than we had to get through on the day Scarlet came out! And the days are […]

Winter: The Beginning of the End

I’m expecting to receive copyedits on CRESS tomorrow morning, which means that after this week, my work on Book 3 of The Lunar Chronicles will be done!   (Well… except the page proofs. And writing the acknowledgments page. And all the promotion stuff. And planning a launch party. And going […]

Young Marissa Plans a Treasure Hunt

As can be said of most writers, I grew up with a crazy overactive imagination. One of my favorite fantasies was always the “Mysterious Clue Found in an Awesome Crumbling Old Mansion that Ultimately Leads to Buried Treasure / A Magical Wardrobe / An Ancient Artifact that Was Most Likely […]