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We’ve all played around with the notion of writing fiction, haven’t we? I know I have. And so it was with great pleasure that I read the Chrononautic Log’s recent post Ten Things I Don’t Know About Writing. Because frankly, I don’t know a lot of these things either. If any authors would like to […]
Mystery and stolen gold. Harper Collins editor Jill Santopolo has recently released her very first children’s book Alec Flint: Super Sleuth, a tale of one boy detective and his quest to discover the location of a missing Christopher Columbus exhibit. Called "a solid middle-grade series in the tradition of Encyclopedia Brown," Jill (who is, I […]
The Summer Book Blogger Tour ends today. It had a good run. Plus I lucked out on my authors, which didn’t hurt any. In fact, I had such a good time doing this that I might do a special guest interview sometime next week. Fingers crossed to see if it goes through. After all, I […]
Have I mentioned how much I love blogs that can you can set up to post in your absence. Ah, science! Alrighty. Today we feature the third and last interview of a smart-type writerly personage of the kidlit persuasion. Voila, Kirsten Miller. She was grilled by Jen Robinson. She was sixty-minuted by Miss Erin (new […]
"Kiki Strike" was not the first girl-spy book, but it certainly feels like it. It’s a cliched question, but where did you get the idea? The best spies are people that everyone else overlooks. (In the business, they’re called “Gray Men.”) For the most part, adults still see girls of a certain age as innocuous—if […]
Those of you who know me know that of the picky eaters of the world, I’m right up there. There will be no melding of fruit and pastries in my desserts. No green beans or disgusting creamed corn in my meals. And obviously it takes one to know one, as today’s poem by my mother […]
When last we saw our hero . . . . She had found "the dress". The red dress that she intended to wear to the Newbery Banquet. When the actual color of the dress appeared to be more of a coral than a red, however, I (third person’s so impersonal) decided to go with it. […]
Still in shock I was led in bright blue footies over to the manicure portion of the room. To my delight, another woman was dragged over with me. This was good. Watching her like a hawk (difficult to do out of the corner of your eye) I took note as she paid her bill before […]
Today I take off for glorious Washington DC. I’ve the Magnetic Fields song of the same name playing on a perpetual loop in my brain (It’s not the way they put folks on the moon, no no no) and a schedule that could be called either hectic or undeniably insane. Oh, just a sec…. let […]
Nope. Nothing here today. Y’all will have to go elsewhere for your interviewer/interviewee/interviewi fixes. If I might make a suggestion? Try the following: Eddie Campbell at Chasing Ray Sara Zarr at Writing and Ruminating Brent Hartinger at Interactive Reader Justine Larbalestier at Big A, little a Cecil Castellucci at Shaken & Stirred Ysabeau Wilce at […]