Extra Life Is Out
It's out.
Read it →From the Desk of Kateryn
Notes from the writing desk
Where the books come from, what I’m working on — the prequels, the next birthday — and the odd bit of Louisiana that wandered into a chapter.
Where the books come from, what I'm working on, and the odd bit of Louisiana that wandered into a chapter. New posts whenever there's something worth telling.
What's New in Book Two
Book Two comes out in one week, so here's what's waiting for readers who finished Book One.
Read it →Read the First Chapter of Extra Life
Book Two comes out in two weeks, so here's how it begins. This is the opening of Chapter 1, "Four Doors Left."
Read it →Why It's a Birthday
The Mirror starts on a birthday sleepover, and that wasn't an accident.
Read it →Door One
Book Two opens the stone door.
Read it →A Small Favor
I'm going to ask for something, and I'll keep it short.
Read it →The Sixth Door
Every story about doors has one door that matters more than the rest. In The Mirror, it sits at the far end of the hallway, and it's enormous.
Read it →Look for the Person First
By the end of Book One, Jr and Dakota have learned something the hard way. The doors aren't just levels. Somebody might be inside, and might have been there a long time.
Read it →Lives Are Not Strikes
There are two counters in The Mirror, and they both go up to three. I knew young readers would mix them up, so I gave the job of keeping them straight to the character who would care most: Jr.
Read it →The Book Is Real Now
Six years ago, this was just a question. Now it's a book in my son's hands.
Read it →Marcus, the Kid Behind the Second Door
When I started writing Door Two, I thought it was a story about a shooter game. Walls that blow apart, patrols that turn at the fourth step, a heavy gunner that comes slowly and never stops.
Read it →It's Out
It's out.
Read it →Read Chapter One
Four days out, so here is the beginning of it.
Read it →Same Door, Same Time
There are four words in this book that get said before every door.
Read it →The Boy in the Book Is Real
People ask where the idea came from, and for a long time I gave a vague answer, because the real one is me cutting my son's hair in a bathroom.
Read it →Meet the Hallway
There is a mirror at the end of a hallway in this book, and the first thing I want you to know about it is that it is crooked.
Read it →The first post is on its way
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