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Fusenews: The Owl Who Gives No Hoots
Good morning to you. While I’m off traipsing about the Illinois Library Association conference in bee-auteous Tinley, IL, why don’t you settle down for an informal smattering of Fusenews. Good for what ails ya. ok, let’s talk about Dr. Seuss says Grace Lin. Ms. Lin faced the full wrath of the masses when she […]
Fusenews: Always Pegged Batman as More of a Tomi Ungerer Fan Myself
Happy ALA Conference Week! Starting this Thursday or Friday or so the librarians will descend en masse upon our fair Chicago. To better prepare you please be so good as to check out Andrea Vaughn Johnson’s piece for the ALSC blog Chicagoland Mini-Tours for Book Lovers. That will fill in any gaps you might have […]
Video Sunday: It’s Been a Long Long Time, M’Dear
Howdy! I’m neck deep in book promotion for old Funny Girl these days, but that doesn’t mean I can’t cut a little chunk of time out of my daily schedule to bring you a swath of some good old-fashioned videos for this Sunday morn. And what a swath it is! First up, a video that […]
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Funny Girl Week: In Defense of Harley Quinn – The Rarity of the Female Trickster
In 2007 Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, published the anthology The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales. It was edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, and edited edited (if there’s a better term of this, I’d love to hear it) by the great and wonderful Sharyn November (who, as luck would have it, initially […]
Dead Funny: Who Says All the Funny Women Are Alive?
Today marks Day 3 in our celebration of humor, women, and children’s literature. Produced in tandem with the release of my anthology of funny female writers and illustrators (Funny Girl, Viking) so far we’ve seen the following: Day #1: Children’s Book Biographies of Funny Women Day #2: What Other Projects My Contributors to Funny Girl […]
Happy Book Birthday, FUNNY GIRL! Celebrating My Contributors Properly
It’s here it’s here! Break out the marching band! Hand out the noise-makers! Give old Grandma Sally a kazoo to toot because my anthology Funny Girl‘s book birthday is here at last! To properly celebrate today I’ve a couple special treats in store. First off, I want to honor the brave women who agreed to […]
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Funny Girl Week: Bios of Hilarious Women
At long last it’s almost here. Tomorrow is the book birthday and release date of my anthology FUNNY GIRL: FUNNIEST. STORIES. EVER. published by Viking Press (Penguin Random House). To celebrate, I was wracking on brain on how to celebrate properly. Then it came to me: Let’s do an entire week celebrating funny women and […]
Fusenews: Because it’s not like you can just buy a mitochondria dress anywhere
Yesterday was spent at the New England SCBWI Conference in Springfield, Mass. Today is being spent moving all my stuff across the street into my brand new home. As will tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that. And the day . . . you get the picture. To combat this incessant […]
Fusenews: Don’t Go Breaking My, Don’t Go Breaking My . . .
Happy Valentine’s Day! It has been QUITE a while since I’ve done one of these Fusenews (Fusenewses? Fusenewsi? What’s the plural?)! Honestly, I’m not sure if they’re as pertinent anymore as they used to be. What with PW Children’s Bookshelf, and Twitter, and Facebook, and The Niblings, getting your children’s literary news has come quite […]
Cover Reveal: And it’s for my own book!!!
Ladies and gentlemen . . . the moment I’ve been waiting for. Wait! Wait! Background information first! So for years I worked as a children’s librarian and I’d get girl after girl after girl coming up to my desk asking for funny books. I credit some of this to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The […]
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