I've interviewed YA author Malinda Lo about the research she did for her debut novel Ash, which is a retelling of Cinderella. Click here to read the interview at Color Online!

YA author Medeia Sharif gave Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind the Honest Scrap Award. Thank you, Medeia! I can't wait to read Medeia's debut novel The Bestest Ramadan Ever, which will be published by Flux in 2011!

For the Honest Scrap Award, I am supposed to say something honest about myself. Plus, Tuesday is known as Confession Tuesday across the blogosphere. So here goes:

I am crushing pretty hard on Filipino American Olympic medalist J.R. Celski. *blush*