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 »
Kekla
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 »
ALA Adventures and Free Book Giveaway!!!
Hello, friends. I’m having a magically fun adventure at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago this week. I’ve strolled the conference floor for hours, picking up books an information and talking to people. I’ve met tons of cool librarians, fellow authors and book lovers galore. I will post pics and tell my tales… Read more »
What A Girl Wants: Writing Multicultural Characters
Okay….so I just wrote a long post about why everyone should pop over to Chasing Ray and read the latest “What a Girl Wants” conversation….then Blogger ate it. Grrr. So, more on the why later, but anyone with an interest in multicutural characters in YA literature should pop over HERE for a peek.
Review at Color Online
Susan at ColorOnline has posted a discussion of some of her favorite books of the year so far, including The Rock and the River! She gives it a nice review, too. Yay! Susan also lists and reviews some other great titles, and she talks about why historical fiction is growing on her. See, there are… Read more »
What a Girl Wants: Detective Stories
The next installment of Colleen Mondor’s “What a Girl Wants” panel interview series is up at Chasing Ray. It’s an awesome discussion! Today we’re talking about the role of the girl detective in YA literature. So……..love Nancy Drew? Agatha Christie? Hermione Granger? Pop over to the forum and weigh in with your own thoughts. Missed… Read more »