Almost four years ago, in October 2010, I exchanged emails with another writer I found on the Absolute Write writers forums. For those who don’t know, the Absolute Write online forums are a huge and helpful, if slightly daunting resource, for aspiring writers. Whether you’re writing picture books or poetry, memoirs or thrillers, that website […]

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Wow. That’s about all I can say about the glorious, wonderful, amazing, ridiculously fun, delightful launch party on Sunday. Just…wow. It starts with the fact that I live in a great place with not one but two great independent bookstores. The event was at Jabberwocky Bookshop, a particularly special place with truly wonderful staff, an […]

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This quote below from wildly crazily best-selling author Rick Riordan is ALL KINDS OF RIGHT. (His newest book, House of Hades, is the latest in the gods of Olympus/Percy Jackson series. If by some odd chance you haven’t heard of him or his books, learn more here. http://www.rickriordan.com/home.aspx) I’m currently  navigating the wild world of Middle […]

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All I can really say about this website is:   Because I had a vision of what I wanted in a website, but my vision looked more like a grubby little sketch done by a non-artist with a ballpoint pen on a ratty legal pad that probably had random phone numbers scrawled in the corner. […]

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So this happened in Publisher’s Weekly today. And I am very very happy. It is, by any standard, a dream come true. Here’s to working hard, writing hard, and to 2014!!!      

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