Announcing the 2008 Design-a-Dragon Contest!

And the Winners Are….

That’s right, the inaugural 2008 Design-a-Dragon contest resulted in a three-way tie! The winners are:

Evan M., a sixth-grader from Simsbury, CT, for his Three-Horned Paleon, a desert species,

Norah M.-L., a third grader from Silver Lake, CA, for her Silver Leaf Dragon, which preys on warthogs and bats and wraps its eggs in stolen animal skins, and

Ella S., a second-grader from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, who not only sent in a model showing her Florella Marvoses with its nest and eggs in its habitat, but provided a detailed natural history account for this migrating species.

All three winners will have their dragons mentioned in the third book in the Hatching Magic series, and will receive an inscribed copy when the book appears.

To see their entries go to the Reader Gallery section of the website.

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Recent Releases

The Dragon of Never-Was is now out in paperback!
The sequel to Hatching Magic is now available in a softcover edition from Aladdin Books.

Awards

The Dragon of Never-Was has been named a Recommended Book by the Boston Authors Club, and Hatching Magic is up for the Connecticut Nutmeg Readers’ Award. I’m delighted and honored to be keeping the company of authors of some really splendid books.

Hatching Magic Translations

Speak Polish? Headed to Prague on vacation? You can now enjoy the adventures of Theodora, Gideon, and Wycca the runaway wyvern in Polish and Czech in these new translations. Click on language links below to see what each cover looks like.

Translations of Hatching Magic
Polish Edition:
Narodziny Magii
Translated into Polish by Jan Kabat
ISA S.P., Warsaw
Site Updates

Check out the new Reader Gallery for pictures and artwork sent in by fellow readers near and far.

Sequel and Reprint News

The untitled third book in the Hatching Magic series is coming along. Once a publication date is announced, I’ll post it here. Atheneum is planning a new edition of the Spellkey Trilogy. Stay tuned for more details about that.

New Blog

Check out my blog, Glass Salamander, at BlogSpot (also posted at my profile on MySpace). I'll be posting recommendations for good reads and favorite bookstores, as well as announcements about readings and appearances. Note that the Guest Book on this site is gone, replaced by the comments page on the MySpace site. You can always write to me care of my publisher, using the address on the Contact page.

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