This post is part of a year-long series of blog interviews I’ll be hosting with my fellow 2009 Debut Authors, called "How They Got Here." It should be an especially helpful series for teens who write, teachers, and anyone who wants to write for kids. 2009 debut authors will be dropping by to talk about…
This post is part of a year-long series of blog interviews I’ll be hosting with my fellow 2009 Debut Authors, called "How They Got Here." It should be an especially helpful series for teens who write, teachers, and anyone who wants to write for kids. 2009 debut authors will be dropping by to talk about…
This is the first in a year-long series of blog interviews I’ll be hosting with my fellow 2009 Debut Authors, called "How They Got Here." It should be an especially helpful series for teens who write, teachers, and anyone who wants to write for kids. 2009 debut authors will be dropping by to talk about…
This is the first in a year-long series of blog interviews I’ll be hosting with my fellow 2009 Debut Authors, called "How They Got Here." It should be an especially helpful series for teens who write, teachers, and anyone who wants to write for kids. 2009 debut authors will be dropping by to talk about…
First of all, congratulations are in order again. Two more of my fellow 2009 debut authors have books on the shelves! I cannot wait to read these two! Congratulations, Sarah MacLean and Erin Dionne! I also want to let you know about a series of blog interviews I’ll be hosting with my fellow Debs, called "How…
This weekend, I attended Kindling Words, a retreat for published authors, illustrators, and editors of children’s books. KW is a little difficult to describe because the whole is so much more than the sum of its parts. There were workshops and readings and informal discussion. There was also painting, yoga, South African drumming, a January…
I spent Thursday at the NYS English Council Conference in Albany, giving presentations on historical fiction and revision, chatting with other writers on a children’s literature panel, and signing copies of Spitfire and Champlain and the Silent One. The fabulous Merritt Bookstore handled book sales for the conference & took terrific care of the authors –…
What sounds like a circus act is actually the reality of having several different projects going on at once, all at different stages. Out on submission, revising, copy editing, Lately, when I sit down for my writing time at night, I have to ask myself… What’s on my desk right now, and what’s off it?…
I’m giving two presentations at the NYS English Council’s annual conference later this month, and I wanted to ask my LJ author friends for some input. My presentation called Historical Fiction as a Bridge to Content Area Literacy focuses on high interest historical fiction with solid historical content as well as nonfiction picture books and middle…
Look what the UPS guy brought this week! He looked at me a little funny when I hugged him. Do you suppose most people don’t do that? Champlain and the Silent One, my historical novel about an Innu boy who travels with Samuel de Champlain on his 1609 voyage to encounter the Iroquois, is officially out…
