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Autumn, with the smell of book banning in the air
(Yes, I know this is a long post. With no pictures. It’s important. Please read through to the end. And then pass it on.)While I was out of town last week, I received word of three attempts to remove two of my books from high school classrooms, TWISTED and SPEAK.The challenge I have the least [...]
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Season turning & question about taking risks
This morning’s sunrise felt like it had the angle of springtime. I haven’t been down the road for a few days, but I bet they’re getting ready to tap the maple trees on the farm. Thank you, everyone for the kind and wonderful comments about the magic window and the cottage. BH spent all day [...]
Love from USA Today and a Skype visit with readers
USA Today gave an early shout-out to WINTERGIRLS and the 10th anniversary edition of SPEAK in the Book Buzz column yesterday!!! (There was dancing in the Forest.) Once the excitement about that died down, it was time for the First Grand Experiment With an Online School Visit. Through the miracle that is Skype, I sat [...]
Listen
As part of the 10th Anniversary of SPEAK, I wrote a poem that shares some of the reader reaction I’ve received in the last decade. Below is the video of me reading the poem at NCTE/ALAN last November. You can find a higher quality version of the video on the “Speak Up About Speak” page [...]
WINTERGIRLS thoughts & questions for you
I’m starting to get mail asking what WINTERGIRLS is about, where the idea came from, etc. I feel weird when asked to summarize my books. It takes me around 300 pages to tell a story and I feel like an idiot when boiling that down to a paragraph or two. But I have been asked [...]
Friday Five – Book News Edition & Twitterpation
Thank you everyone for the very sweet comments and emails about the O’Dell Award! I am still tingling with excitement and hyperventilating. Christmas is finally over up here on the Tundra. We’ve had Daughter #1 (aka Bookavore) and her boyfriend up here for the final celebration. Author Alert – Bookavore is moving to the Big [...]
Linkety
My extended family is going through a rough time right now (not Mom – she’s fine), so posting will be sporadic this week. I received a nice link from a teacher in IL who featured some classroom ideas for SPEAK on her blog. Publicist Deborah Sloan has a few review copies of CHAINS available (scroll [...]
Book Trailer Contest Revision
Thank you to everyone who commented and emailed me about the book trailer contest deadline yesterday. You confirmed my hunch. I have two announcements. 1. To everyone who has submitted a book trailer as of today. Please email your mailing address to Officemouse AT writerlady DOT com as soon as possible. Your trailer is still [...]
need help with a muddle
So…. that giant book trailer contest I am having? It turns out that summer is a bad time to do these things. I have had many more requests from teachers and librarians to extend the deadline into the fall than I have had entries. Do you think I should extend the deadline? Is the middle [...]
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