There are too many children’s authors I need to sit down and have a cup of coffee (or in this case, tea) with and talk books. Cheryl Blackford is one of them! I am heading out right now to get Lizzie and the Lost Baby! In his workshops, Donald Maas often asks writers to find one… Read more »
I met Deb Caletti at a signing for one of her early novels and, as we are both Puget Sound area residents, our paths cross from time to time; I’m tickled every time it happens. Deb is astute, funny, kind and one heck of a writer. One of the best parts of being a writer is… Read more »
One of my quirks, if you will, in writing historical fiction is using names of real people in my books. In the midst of preparing for a presentation called Semper Fido (happened yesterday at the Washington State History Museum, btw), I had the dog handlers of the Marines’ War Dog Unit on my mind. Especially Pfc…. Read more »
What a pleasure it is to host Cynthia Kennedy Henzel today! We met some time back, at an SCBWI conference in Arizona, when this book was but a gleam in her brain’s eye. (I might be exaggerating a tiny bit here.) In the short years since, she has not only polished this manuscript, it is… Read more »
What a pleasure and an honor to host Martha Brockenbrough on the blog today! An incredibly accomplished writer, along with being the founder of National Grammar Day, she’s probably one of the funniest and most generous women I know. Her latest novel, The Game of Love and Death, has garnered three starred reviews. It launches next week… Read more »
Dawn Ackroyd, a Grade 3 teacher from Calgary, Alberta, managed to thaw out enough to participate in the Teacher Tuesday quiz. Thanks, Dawn! Let’s dive in. Fill in the blank: You should never read and (blank) at the same time. You should never read and vacuum at the same time. It seemed like a good… Read more »
I just know Augusta Scattergood and I would’ve been best friends had we met as kids. We would’ve been the quiet ones, in the back of the room, trying to read our library books during math lessons. As it turned out, I met Augusta in person on one of the saddest days of my life…. Read more »