On the road again |
The anticipation of something is always better than the reality unless you don't anticipate it at all. That's how I feel about travel. I relish the idea in advance a bed to myself in a silent room...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:31:00 GMT |
Late Night Talk From Teens |
Okay, the book in question was mine.I know that even mentioning someone that praises a book of one's own verges on being self-promoting.But the fact that the writer liked my novel was not what was int...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:48:00 GMT |
The Gathering in Time |
And literally overnight, it was fall.We came home from the Hawaiian Islands Writers Conference, where I'm lucky enough to teach some pretty gifted students every Labor Day week. Every morning, we'd op...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:02:00 GMT |
The Midnight Twins |
Jacquelyn Mitchard. Razorbill, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59514-160-6Experimenting with genre, Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean; All We Know of Heaven, Reviews, May 26) proffers the first of a projec...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:02:00 GMT |
A heavenly early look at my new YA novel, ’ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN’ |
It’s still a month before publication but teen readers are beginning to weigh in on ’ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN’ and I’m absolutely in heaven about what they have to say!Here are so...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:50:00 GMT |
A Foggy (And Yet Freezing) Week in London Town |
We heard it first in the taxi, the wonderful London taxi -- they can turn in the radius of their own length -- on the way to our hotel near Hyde Park.It was to be the worst storm of the winter, and pe...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:32:00 GMT |
All We Know of Heaven |
They say that the question every author asks is, 'What if?'But the question this author asks is 'What next?'I'm interested in the time after the event that precipitate in the book -- in who is changed...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:02:00 GMT |
Pedophile Central |
If I were a person with a yen for evil, I would have been in my element last week at a cheerleading competition in Chicago. Yes, cheerleading.Yes, a person of my house, my own kin, is a competitive ch...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:34:00 GMT |
TWO READERS WANTED: No one over 18 need apply |
A new novel, 'The Midnight Twins,' the first in a trilogy about twin sisters who wake up in the hospital one day to discovered they've survived a fire but become psychics, will be out in July.I'm look...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:55:00 GMT |
One Writers Place |
Years ago, when I had both lots of money and much gratitude, I vowed to start a writer's residence that would be different from "the bigs" from Breadloaf, The MacDowell Colony and my own beloved alm...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:47:00 GMT |
