Rachel Thompson’s recent article on the Huffington Post blog, while unpleasantly titled and designed to smack her fellow authors around a bit, offers a pretty comprehensive and useful list of self-promotional things authors can and should try. Feel like you’ve tried everything? Rachel guarantees you haven’t. I make no such guarantees, but since this blog… Read more »
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Dark and Stormy
I guess I’m coming late to the party: I just found out today about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) blackout. Where have I been, you might ask? I’ve been everywhere I usually go online lately, I just somehow missed it. But now I’m on board. Well, I’m not turning my… Read more »
New Website!
I just finished a very long process of revising and updating my website. With the help of a fabulous web designer, all my new content is up and ready for viewing! I’m very pleased about how it all turned out. I’ve moved my blog content from Blogger to my own site, too, so if you’ve been following… Read more »
Cynsational Me
My guest post was featured yesterday on Cynsations, author Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s awesome all-things-kidlit blog. I blogged about my inspirations for writing Camo Girl, my novel about friendship and fitting in in middle school. Camo Girl deals with some hot-button issues of the day, like bullying, but mainly it is about learning to recognize real… Read more »
New Year, New Directions
Okay, so it isn’t the new year yet, but I can’t believe how fast the summer disappeared, and how quickly the fall seems to be getting chomped up, too. It’s already mid-October (eek!) and I’m sure I’ll be dragging out my snowboots and singing Auld Lang Syne much sooner than I can possibly imagine. So,… 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 »
What A Girl Wants, What A Girl Reads
The “What a Girl Wants” interview series has launched over at Chasing Ray. Today we’re talking about what we read as tweens/teens that most impacted us. Check it out! And then join the discussion in the comments section. This is really fun. I’m thrilled to be a part of this fabulous group of writer women!
What A Girl Wants
Colleen Mondor, of Chasing Ray , is hosting a brand new, exciting round table of women authors talking about “What a Girl Wants.” It launches later this week, and I’ll be participating! Here’s a sneak peek at Colleen’s introduction to the conversation: “I’ve been a bit bothered for awhile now about the kind of books… Read more »