January 2010

Mondays at CHICKS ROCK!

On Mondays, I blog for The Women’s Mosaic: http://www.chicksrockblog.com/

Drumroll Please….

I woke up this morning to a call from my favorite editor (@EditorK) informing me that The Rock and the River and I have won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. This is a huge honor in the world of children’s literature and I’m so pleased! More on this to follow later… Read more »

Mondays at CHICKS ROCK!

On Mondays, I blog over at CHICKS ROCK! for The Women’s Mosaic: http://www.chicksrockblog.com/

Mondays at CHICKS ROCK!

On Mondays, I blog over at CHICKS ROCK! for The Women’s Mosaic:http://www.chicksrockblog.com/ To link directly to today’s post, CLICK HERE.

NAACP Image Awards

I always get good news when I’m in the library. When I saw my book cover for the first time, I was in the library. When I heard I was getting a NYTimes Book Review, I had just come from the library. And today, I was sitting oh-so-decorously in the library when I got the… Read more »

Chicks Rock!

On Mondays, I blog over at CHICKS ROCK! for The Women’s Mosaic. You can find a post from me there today: http://www.chicksrockblog.com/

New Year’s Resolution

If there was an award for worst blogger ever, I think I’d be in the running. It’s been, what…six months? since I posted anything. Ugh. Need to get back up on the horse, as they say. New Year’s Resolution: Be a good blogger. No, scratch that. I will never be a terribly good blogger. Umm…….. Read more »