Cindy Lord is one of my Silver Sisters (along with Jennifer Holm). The three of us shared Newbery Honor awards in 2007 and have been friends ever since. I honestly don’t know when Cindy finds time to sleep — she has been absolutely prolific in the past years, creating engaging picture books (featuring Hot Rod… Read more »
Hope. What a sweet and delicious concept. Frankly in the past two years, I’ve needed more than a drop of it. So when I was invited to read Keith Calabrese’s manuscript, upon hearing the title, I immediately accepted that invitation. One of the drawbacks of being a writer (sadly, Dear Reader, there are one or… Read more »
It is such a pleasure to host Dan Gemeinhart today; after all, we are practically neighbors, with only a tiny mountain range separating us in Washington state. Dan and I are both published by Scholastic AND we each had books nominated for the Washington State Book Award (his Some Kind of Courage took home the… Read more »