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WFMAD Day 21 – banning censorship
Censorship is in the news again. Start out your Saturday by reading Pat Scales’ great article about Common Sense Media, Three Bombs, Two Lips, and a Martini Glass. Then bring yourself up to speed on the censorship battle surrounding the Teen Lit Fest in Humble, TX. My friend, Ellen Hopkins, was disinvited to speak after [...]
WFMAD Day 20 – Silliness
Sometimes you just have to push the silly button. Maybe that’s why it is time for the annual Pimp My Bookcart competition. Last year’s winner was a Good Humor-themed cart created by welding students at Harlem High School. If you need to smile, check out all of last year’s winners. Two more smile makers come [...]
WFMAD Day 13 – Alone Together
Such a strange thing writing is, don’t you think? Visions of other people and other worlds swim in your head until you have no choice but to write them down. Then you have the burning need to have someone else read what you’ve written, so you embark on the rocky path to publication. The writing [...]
My writer’s group & WFMAD approacheth
Are you ready? Pencils sharpened, pens lined up, fingers nimble? The Third Annual LHA Write Fifteen Minutes a Day challenge starts on Sunday, August 1st! ::cue roaring crowd and bawking chickens:: WFMAD is a bit like NaNoWriMo, but better. Because writing the draft of a novel in one month (which is the goal of NaNoWriMo) [...]
Utah adventure
(Pre-post entertainment. Are you following the results of the Top 100 YA Novels poll over at Persnickety Snark? Check it out!)What with all the new website hullaboo, things have been not quite as serene as normal, so I am way behind on telling you about the BYU Children’s Literature Symposium.(Thank you, by the way, for [...]
Batting Monday Clean-up
You know the sound a car engine makes at the RPMs are climbing and you are preparing to shift into the next gear?Make that sound in your mind right now.I’m getting ready to shift gears and go full throttle on a number of projects.Before I can do that, though, I have to clean off a couple [...]
Brilliant Win of Kate Messner
I don’t have much time this morning, but I wanted to post a quick video from last night. This is for Kate Messner, who couldn’t be here at BEA because she is a dedicated teacher and she is teaching this week.That did not stop her book, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z, from winning a big [...]
Rochester-bound & chicken moment of zen
(Zen can be found at the bottom of this post.)A couple of people have written to ask how our dog, the Creature With Fangs, is taken the arrival of the baby chickens. (The CWF is a large, neurotic German Shepherd.)We have not made the necessary introductions yet. There is a very good chance we never [...]
Don’t You Just Love Writers Who Can Say What You Feel?
So do me a favor today.Read Deb Heiligman’s post about the LA Times Book Prize and Festival & the power of childrens’ literature and missing her mom.Deb is one of my bestest friends, which means I am now going to call and yell at her and thank her in the same breath for making me cry.It [...]
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WFMAD Day 23 – right to speak, right to read, right to write