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 […]
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 […]
I can’t help it anymore! I have GOT to share my incredible cover. Honestly, I think it’s be best cover in the whole wide world. What? You think I’m biased? And if that’s not awesome enough, look at the whole thing! Can we now agree that the amazing people at Delacorte Press are seriously the […]
Several years ago I wrote this post about the winter solstice, and about wanting to hibernate through the winter, and about traditions, such as bringing evergreens into our house, and lighting fires to keep away the dark. As a culturally-practicing-but-religiously-agnostic Jew married to a traditionally-raised-but-lapsed Catholic, there are a lot of traditions and rituals that […]
Please, have a 12th century image of a knight battling a snail. I insist. The Smithsfield Decretals, decretals of Gregory IX, Tolouse, c. 1300
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 […]
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. […]
Since I pulled our suitcases out for our trip to Nepal last November, I have not put them away. First there was a trip to Canada around Christmas to see family. Then there was a quick run to New York to meet amazingagent Marietta and amazingeditor Michelle. Then it was time for a belated 40th […]
