Deborah Halverson

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Turning “Yes” Into a Book

June 27, 2010

Remember that “Yes Challenge” I took a couple of weeks ago, where I was supposed to say “Yes” 70 times a day for 7 days? Well, I did it, and I learned four things …

Filed Under: Adventures in Writing

I’m a Cynsation for a day!

June 18, 2010

I’m honored to be the guest blogger today on author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s fabulous blog “Cynsations.” Cynthia is a New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling author of YA Gothic fantasies, including Tantalize and Eternal, as well as several picture books for children. Here’s a teaser from my guest post about setting in YA novels, […]

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Perhaps I shouldn’t Be Operating Large Vehicles

June 14, 2010

I may not be able to remember what day it is, but I can spot a fellow author at a hundred paces. Last week, sometime around Wednesday, I lost track of which day it was. On Thursday, I was convinced it was Wednesday and so did not take my sons to their Thursday afternoon jui-jitsu […]

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Did Someone Say, ‘Nathan’s Famous’?

June 1, 2010

I’m getting this in just under the wire. Alas, that’s ‘under the wire’ for ME. When anyone else reads this blog post, it’ll probably be tomorrow instead of an hour shy of tomorrow, and thus TOO LATE for you to do what I just did. That is, enter the ‘Nathan’s Famous You Be the Judge […]

Filed Under: Adventures in Writing, Especially for Teen Readers

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