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Mad Woman in the Garden, take one
As promised, I’ve been playing around with my new camera. Yesterday, I found the On switch and went out to my garden at dawn to record this little tour. Keep all expectations low and try not to snort coffee out your nose onto your keyboard. Keep spreading the word about the Summer Twisted/Speak Book Trailer [...]
Hot Summer Twisted/Speak Book Trailer Contest!
Thank you so much everyone for all the enthusiastic comments and emails yesterday about the ALAN Award announcement. My feet didn’t touch the ground all day. The Office Mouse has been scurrying around getting me caught up on technology and preparing for the books coming out in the next year. One of the things we’d [...]
Give & Receive Goodies!!!
I’m emerging briefly from the Cave of Revision (where I had a very nice epiphany yesterday, thank you, and now I’m pretty sure I know how to fix the part that wasn’t working in this story) to check the calendar. Note: there is a chance to win free books ahead, including a collectible first edition. [...]
Majoring in Creative Writing and other questions
Readers questions are pouring in! Many folks are asking about one of my responses to Katrina’s questions earlier in the week about majoring in Creative Writing in college. I wrote: Don’t major in Creative Writing, but take some of the classes if the professor has a good reputation with the other students. This made some [...]
Mail about the realities of writing
Yes, Theo is in the process of posting my new website, and yes, we know that not all features are working yet. Thank you very much to everyone who has written to let us know pages that seem to be empty and the broken links. Consider the current version very much Beta. It will be [...]
Have I mentioned that censorship makes me cranky?
What a way to start the month. First, John Green’s LOOKING FOR ALASKA is under fire for being “pornographic”. And now, some parents are going after SPEAK. The teacher involved has asked me not to name the school because she wants the process and policies of the district to unfold away from the glare of [...]
As the tummy turns
I feel much better today, but am still hovering on the edge of the crud. (note – I originally misspelled that as “xrud.” I think it works better that way.) BH has had it worse than me. I think another 24 hours of solitude and we’ll be all set. I am feeling just xruddy enough [...]
Seventh grade…again
Yesterday I had the chance to go back to junior high, only now they call it a middle school, and next year they change it again to a K-8 configuration. Levy. On Fellows Avenue in Syracuse. This was not as traumatic as revisiting my high school was. For one thing, I went to Levy with [...]
SPEAK on stage at Fayetteville-Manlius
Last night was pretty much an out-of-body experience. Anyone who reads my books knows that I struggled in high school, for a lot of different reasons. The bad news is that I was a depressed kid for a long time. The good news is that I did not die or do anything permanently stupid. I [...]
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