Today is the book birthday for Liberty — hooray! Writing Liberty was like wrassling alligators in a vat of gumbo. My creative process is always messy but it was downright discouraging as I struggled to reel in the heart of this story. It wasn’t until I gave a young German POW his own space on the page that the… Read more »
I so love to hear other writer’s stories about how they came to writing, how they came to find the stories they were meant to write. So I was pleased that Barbara Herkert was willing to share a bit of her journey with us today! In October of 2015, I had two picture book biographies… Read more »
Please welcome the prolific (nineteen novels!) Karen Rivers to my blog today to celebrate her newest book, The Girl in the Well is Me (Algonquin Books for Young Readers) which School Library Journal called “compulsively readable) and which has its book birthday on March 15. People often ask me where I get my ideas and… Read more »
Today is the book birthday of Audacity Jones to the Rescue. I’ve never had so much fun writing a book. I hope you have as much fun reading it! Do let me know what you think.
What a treat it is to host Anne Nesbet! Anne and I are cyber friends only at this point but I know we’d be best buds if our paths were to cross. How can you not love someone who writes about people with a passion for maps? Chart our path for today’s conversation, please, Anne!… Read more »
Bonny Becker and I go waaaaay back. We were part of the same critique group when her now wildly successful Bear and Mouse books were merely gleams in Bonny’s imagination. Her work is fresh, witty and full of warmth. It is with great pleasure that I turn this blog over to her today. The call was… Read more »
Boy oh boy, am I happy to host Linda Urban today. We met eons ago at a writing retreat facilitated by then editor Linda Zuckerman, both unpublished but eager to learn. She is a peach of a person and a terrific writer. I am particularly taken with how she can, in her novels, evoke character… Read more »
Natasha Wing is a friend from waaaay back. I can’t recall the first time we met but I know it was when she was a member of my writing partner Mary Nethery’s critique group. Tash: did we meet at the Humboldt County Author Festival? Perhaps. At any rate, we have covered a lot of ground… Read more »
It is my great delight to host Paddy Eger today. She was a student of mine years ago with a powerful historical fiction manuscript. I knew her words would find their way into print. Read on for more of her story! How the Writing Bug Grabbed Me If you’d told me fifteen years ago… Read more »
I just finished this book: And I loved it! I think you will, too. Even if you aren’t fond of chickens, you will fall for Sophie Brown’s chickens. They are, well, the title of the book says it all: unusual. And so is the enterprising and industrious Sophie, who misses her Abuelita so much after the Brown… Read more »