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Secret journeys
I’ve been AWOL from blogging for a week, but it has been for the best of all possible reasons.Last weekend I was at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Saw all kinds of kidlit people like, Mo Willems and Chris Myers.A couple of my blog readers showed up armed with life-sustaining popcorn for me, like Rebecca from [...]
A long weekend’s worth of links & deviled egg inquiry
I am slowly transitioning from insane farmer woman back to being a writer who gardens a little. By the end of the weekend, the new vegetable plots should be finished, seedlings in, and seeds sown. And it’s a good thing because I am itching to get back to writing. All the travel and work stress [...]
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Last Day on the Road!
I’m off to the airport to go HOME!!! And this time I get to STAY home for two months!! ::dances around hotel room::: Here are the final pics from the IRA conference. Ambassador Scieszka was in the house. So was Ashley Bryan. And Sharon Draper! Who can resist a photo with Skippyjonjones? Penguin publicity people [...]
Authors galore
Here are a couple of quick photos from yesterday before I dash out the door. The world-renowned Minneapolis Sisters of the Book Shirt showed up in Wintergirls shirts and brought one for me! Then Jordan Sonnenblick stopped by to say hello. I signed books with Jane Yolen and her son Adam Stemple, and Steve van [...]
Kindling with the Muse
So, if my beloved Eagles can’t win, I throw my support down the PA Turnpike to the Steelers. Which means I sort of get to say “We won!” Awesome game, great-half-time (tho’ it sure looked to me like Bruce is going to be a little sore today, what with flinging himself into the stage and [...]
It’s monday so I have to be organized, right?
First – I am blushing and squirming profusely as I do this, but Betsy Bird posted an incredibly detailed and generous review of CHAINS. Thank you, Betsy! The weekend sort of didn’t exist for me because I spent most of it rushing hither and yon. Saturday morning I flew to Detroit and then took a [...]
carolyn mackler’s visit & a holiday in the forest
BH and I scurried down from the tundra to Syracuse last night to listen to Carolyn Mackler talk about her writing and her experiences with having her books challenged and banned. That’s my friend and fellow author Ellen Yeomans on the left, Carolyn, and me with the goofy face. Carolyn gave a terrific speech that [...]
to the parents of the future writers of America…
I often hear from young readers asking my advice about how they can become an author, but yesterday, the question came from a different angle. The mother of a talented teen writer wrote in asking my advice. She wrote “I need some advice (please)…… My teenage daughter writes beautifully and her teachers are saying she [...]
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