My second monthly YA News and Reviews column is up today at Romance Novel TV. I’d love to see some friends faces swing by and comment.

The weather here has been stormy the past few days. Yesterday, a trained spotter reported a funnel cloud in the suburb where I live. I didn’t have to make any mad dashes for the bathtub in the interior bathroom, but it sure got windy and dark here for awhile. And the radar was lit up with red when I clicked on the local news coverage. There’s been more rumbling, rain and lightning today and tonight, and spotters once again reported funnel clouds — though this time they were north of us. At least so far.

In writing news…let me just say for the record that changing a manuscript from third person to first person is quite tedious. I can only do two or three pages at a time before I have to get up and do something else for a few minutes; as luck would have it, I always have something else that needs doing.. Six chapters left to go of this, and then thankfully I can work on writing up a synopsis for a new YA idea.

I have an interview up at Katie’s Book Blog. Katie is a high school senior who loves to blog about the wonderful world of books and reading. Swing by and see if you can find out anything new about me.

Another review of Heartbreak River went live today over at The Story Siren.  She said the book “swept her away.” I like that.

I went to the library today to pick up one book in particular, Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore. Rosemary’s Hell Week is a RITA finalist this year, and I want to read all the finalists before the awards ceremony in July. But I hate to read series out of order, so I got the first in the series, uh, first. Anyway, I went in for the one book and came out with three. I can’t help myself — in libraries or bookstores. I also got ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley and A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson.