My next middle grade novel, Wayward Creatures, releases on Tuesday! I am so excited to share this book with all you wonderful readers! It’s about friendship and family and struggling through hard times, both inside and outside yourself. It’s about the power of restorative practices, both for the natural world and a community. And it’s…
This Earth Day, join the awesome children’s and YA author Alex London and me to celebrate two months since the release of OF A FEATHER! I’ll read from Of a Feather–Rufus’s point of view, of course!–and then Alex and I will chat with you about researching falconry (we both got to actually fly raptors with…
I made a book trailer for Of a Feather! Thank you to my wonderful daughter for making me *custom animation* for the project and to my fabulous cover and spot art artist Izzy Burton! If you’d like to learn more about the book, come to one of my launch events THIS WEEK! Monday, I’ll be…
This MONDAY, the amazing Tui Sutherland will join in me launching my new middle grade novel Of a Feather at Belmont Books! This is my first launch event, and it will be a kind of Meet the Book, Meet the Author event. We’ll talk about my inspiration for the book and how Tui has inspired me! Tui…
Happy New Year to all! As many are wont to do around this time of year, I have been reflecting on 2015 and setting goals for 2016. 2015 was a very busy year for me, though not necessarily in a public way. I did a ton of writing and revising, and visited classrooms both in…
Hello, Readers of my Blog! It’s been…months. I apologize for the delay in–nay, total lack of communication. But there is some good news! I may not have been writing my Blog, but I have been writing a bunch of other things: In the past twelve months, I have completed two brand-spanking new manuscripts and done…
This past glorious Saturday (in what has been a string of bizarre, glorious sunny days up here in VT), the wonderful folks at The Flying Pig Bookstore hosted a celebration of No Easy Way Out at which there were… BOOKS! And… ME! Talking about exciting stuff like my…
Okay, so officially, No Easy Way Out has been launched for a while…But it hasn’t had a party! And it hasn’t had cupcakes! (I made these for the No Safety in Numbers launch… expect the same level of awesome, in slightly different colors…:) So please join me for an awesome afternoon celebrating No Easy Way…
I have taken the last month or so off from blogging and tweeting and Facebooking in an effort to remain sane while I finished Book 2 of the No Safety in Numbers trilogy. I am so excited about Book 2! It’s called No Easy Way Out. I hope you like it. I am about to…
Dayna Lorentz is the author of the DOGS OF THE DROWNED CITY series (Scholastic) and NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS (Dial).
I write because I have to; I write because I love to; I eat cupcakes because they’re there.