Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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I Write Because Of You, Grandma
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Grandma was educated in a different time, and maybe Punnett squares hadn’t been invented yet, because she was convinced we shared 100% of our genes. “You write because of me,” she’d tell me, often, as a child. “I’m a writer.” It’s true. She wrote people poems on their birthdays, and she wrote novels she’d print [...]
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Because It’s The Best Part Of Having A Brain Injury
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
After an Internet hiatus to end all hiatuses (hiati?), last week I re-entered the world of things-I-don’t-really-need-to-know-but-feel-ignorant-if-I-don’t. Who should welcome me back but some chap named Amis, whose name means “friends” but ironically didn’t seem at all friendly. His claim that the only way he’d write for children is with a brain injury got me [...]
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‘Tis The Season For Massive Hair Loss And Re-Gifting Writing Tips
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Some of you know that I grow out my hair to donate to Locks of Love. And it was getting to be that time again, the time when the beater brush on our vacuum cleaner no longer spins because it’s coated with my hair. So last week I went from this… Hmm. Remember how last [...]
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The Post I Forgot To Title
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
A few weeks ago, I had the truly enchanting opportunity to talk books with writers Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, on tour for their new book BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (a follow-up to their mega-success BEAUTIFUL CREATURES) (not that BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS isn’t a mega-success in its own right). Here’s us talking about collaborative writing, favorite series (BSC [...]
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Current Obsessions
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
1. CONFESSIONS OF THE SULLIVAN SISTERS I just finished reading this yesterday, and can I just say, WOW. I savored this book for exactly one week and I will tell you, it made the whole WEEK awesome. Natalie Standiford is a terrific author (who , yes, has blurbed my forthcoming BACK WHEN YOU WERE EASIER [...]
