HOT WINGS: A hilarious New Yorker piece about the current state of teen fiction

I took my daughter to the eye doctor for a checkup today and, while there, stumbled across a highly amusing New Yorker article: "'Hot Wings': Notes on My Next Best-Seller," by Larry Doyle. First of all, I was thrilled that the eye doctor provided copies of the New Yorker; second, I had to control my laughter in the lobby when reading Doyle's attempts to come up with the perfect title for a book about a hot, teen, male angel (my personal favorites are his Mangel suggestions).  The piece was written in response to a April 5 headline in The Huffington Post: "Angels May Replace Vampires as New Trend in Teen Lit."

Read Larry Doyle's full humor piece.

Interviewed about my YA lit at Write in the Shadows

Novelist Nicole Hadaway has interviewed my YA-fiction-writing alter ego, Cat Winters, over at Write in the Shadows today.  I've revealed much more than usual about the plot of Blackbirds, plus you can learn my least-favorite food and my gripes about the color pea-soup green.

A snippet from the interview:

A near-death experience straddles my heroine between the world of the living and the realm of the dead, and she’s able to communicate with the frustrated spirit of an eighteen-year-old friend of the family who’s been told he was killed in battle.

Read more at http://writeintheshadows.com.

Interview of me at the "Children of the Night" radio show

My vampire music playlist aired on Turkey's Acik Radyo yesterday, and today the show's host, Aylin Unal, posted an interview of me at http://karanligincocuklari.blogspot.com.  While her show is in Turkish (a beautiful spoken language), the interview is indeed in English.

Two upcoming interviews

Forgive the duplicate posts if you're also following me at CatWinters.com and Suburban Vampire.  I have two upcoming interviews I'm excited to share.

First, this weekend Suburban Vampire is being featured on a vampire music radio show in Instanbul, Turkey. Journalist Aylin Unal contacted me about her show and asked me to send her a vampire playlist based on my Music Monday favorites. She'll also be running an interview about me and the blog. The show will air this Monday, July 5, at 2:00 AM Eastern European Summer Time (Sunday, July 4, at 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time), on Acik Radio, 94.9 (which you can hear online). On Monday, July 5, I'll be featured at Aylin's blog, karanligincocuklari.blogspot.com. Thank you, Aylin!

Second, the wonderful Nicole Hadaway will be interviewing me as Cat Winters at Write in the Shadows on Thursday, July 8. I'll be revealing a little more info about Blackbirds over there.