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News: See Big Mouth on “Good Morning Connecticut”
My novel Big Mouth was featured today in Katie Davis’s Thanksgiving book round-up on “Good Morning Connecticut” (ABC affiliate WTNH)! See the four-minute segment here on the GMC website: “Books Give Kids Good Thanksgiving Message.” Katie’s podcast, “Brain Burps for Books,” promotes children’s literature and the business of writing for young people. With episodes like […]
News: Just Taped “Brain Burps About Books” Podcast
I just spent an hour in my walk-in closet. The last time I did that, I was cowering under an onslaught of infant triplet crying. My boys are almost six years old now, and long past choral crying (and I’m much less sleep-deprived), so I was hanging out in the closet for a much better […]
Musical Chairs in the Coffee Shop
This weekend I squeezed in some writing at the ultra busy Borders Cafe. At one point, in dire need of a laptop charge, I spotted an open armchair next to an outlet and rushed over to plug in. The writer in the armchair next to me leaped up and rushed to my vacated table. Another […]
Giveaway: FREE EDIT of a Picture Book Manuscript
Dear-Editor.com has just had its six-month birthday. Woo-hoo! I’m having so much fun with the site. To celebrate this milestone (and to satisfy popular request), I’m giving away a free edit of one picture book manuscript. Deadline: October 10, 2010. For the rules and to enter, go to the announcement on Dear-Editor.com. Happy writing!
The Noisier the Writing, the Better
Silence disturbs me. I can’t read without music, and I certainly can’t write without it. Perhaps not oddly, there was a blip in my aversion to silence when I found myself surrounded by infant triplets twenty-four hours a day, but now that those babies are kindergarteners and don’t cry nearly so much, I’m back to […]
The Limit
My good friend, Postal Worker Jane, just doorbell-ditched me. She does that, stopping her truck in front of my house to deliver my mail to my doorstep instead of making me hike all the way across the street to my mailbox. She started that practice when my boys were babies, and she’s still doing it […]
Swimming with the (BIG!) Fishies
Surfing is far more hazardous than I suspected. During Lesson #1, my friends and I shuffle-shuffle-shuffled our feet to ward off the lurking stingrays that stung a man near us just after we finished our lesson… and that stung 60 beachgoers at that spot the next day. During Lesson #2, this past Sunday, we swam […]
News: I’m Writing a For Dummies book!
I’m proud to announce that I’ve just been signed to write Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies for Wiley Publishing’s For Dummies line. The book is scheduled for June 2011 publication. I’m so excited! And with my triplets just having started full-day kindergarten, the timing certainly couldn’t be better. An amazing new chapter in our […]
Turning “Yes” Into a Book
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 …
I’m a Cynsation for a day!
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, […]
Perhaps I shouldn’t Be Operating Large Vehicles
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 […]
Did Someone Say, ‘Nathan’s Famous’?
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 […]
Interview for SCBWI’s “Industry PROfiles”
The Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators has just posted an on-line interview with me. I’m very excited, because I just love SCBWI. It’s the go-to organization for all the wonderful folks who create the words and images in children’s books. The interview focuses on my literary journey from playroom to publishing house to […]
New Gig: SCBWI-San Diego Chapter
9/11 is an ominous date, but this year I’ll be doing my part to cast a little sunshine on those numbers: I’ll be presenting “How Do You Know Your Manuscript Is Ready for Submission?” at the season-opening meeting of the San Diego chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators’ (SCBWI). Check it […]
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