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Karlene

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About Me

Hello, MySpace Friend: I thought you might want to read the first few paragraphs (see blog)of Spelldown, a novel I dictated to Karon Luddy, a smart-alecky writer in Charlotte, NC, who's got her hands full writing the second novel I'm dictating to her. She's also traveling around promoting Spelldown, which Publisher's Weekly called, "FUNNY and HEARTRENDING—A RESONATE, APPLAUSE-WORTHY WORK OF FICTION. Thank Goodness her daughter, Charlotte Bowman, had the good sense to create this MySpace page so that all the cool, hip, happening kind of people can hear about me and my brush with fame in 1969.

I would love to hear what you think of SPELLDOWN.
You can also see the author's website at karonluddy.com.
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I'd like to meet:

Ringo, Jesus, Aretha Franklin, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy,

My Blog

Review from Parents Choice Award

Review: It's 1969, small-town South Carolina, and 13-year-old Karlene Bridges is determined to make it to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. Karlene does not just love spelling words; she is...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:14:00 GMT

Spelldown has just received a 2007 Parents Choice Award for fiction.

Parents Choice Award
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:29:00 GMT

Starred Review December 3, 2007 from Kirkus

Starred Review December 3, 2007  from  Kirkus       "An ambitious teen with a voluminous vocabulary beats the odds and spells her way to success. Thirteen-year-old...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 16:10:00 GMT

Chapter 1 of Spelldown

meg·a·lo·ma·niac 1. a. mania for great or grandiose performance 2. a delusional mental disorder that is marked by infantile feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur      ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 13:15:00 GMT

First Grade (a poem from Wolf Heart) by Karon Luddy

First GradeIn a roomthat smelledof pencil shavings and vomitI met twenty-six lifelong friendsletters that were sometimesbig and sometimes smallaccording to where theyfound themselvesin a sentence or...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:04:00 GMT

Wolf Heart (Book of Poetry by Karon Luddy) new!

Wolf Heart, by Karon Luddy (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2007), pp. vi + 38. $15   Karon Luddy is an exciting talent, the product of a vivid, conflicted experience of Upstate ...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 04:57:00 GMT

Behind the Book By Karon Luddy, author of Spelldown

A BOOK HAS ITS OWN FATE: Habent sua fata libelli: The Writing and Publishing Process of Spelldown By Karon Luddy, author of Spelldown "Picture this. September 2004. New York. An editor and agent ar...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 04:43:00 GMT

UPCOMING EVENTS:

UPCOMING EVENTS: May 8: Park Road Montessori School..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />             Charlotte, NC May 11: Bailey...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 14:01:00 GMT

Reader Reviews from amazon.com

..> Reviewer: Rochester Fan (USA) - See all my reviews..> I confess that I am a personal friend of the author, Karon Luddy. I have known her since 1976, and she was a student in several of my Englis...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:19:00 GMT

My School Rocks Review

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Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:00:00 GMT