Friend Friday
In July, I was honored to present at the International Literacy Association conference and even more honored to find myself [...]
Friend Friday
I reconnected with Carolyn Dee Flores at the International Literacy Association conference this past summer. She was bubbling with excitement [...]
Friend Friday
I met Roxanne Lambie at a reading association conference in El Paso, if I remember correctly. She was at a [...]
Friend Friday
Suzanne has the warmest smile and biggest heart and it is an honor to know her. Her newest book, All [...]
Friend Friday
Though I love to read nonfiction, I am almost more fascinated by why its writers choose the topics that they [...]
Friend Friday
What a treat it is to host a fellow dog-lover! I think I may have met Wendy Wahman through her [...]
Friend Friday
I had the pleasure of being with Diana Noble at a conference recently. We hit it right off and she [...]
Friend Friday
I had the lovely fortune to be seated next to Kevin Scott at the Inside Story, sponsored by SCBWI Western [...]
Friend Friday
Even though I'd hardly known Diana Lopez for five minutes, when I asked her to be a Friend Friday guest, [...]
Friend Friday
Boy, howdy, am I excited about today's Friend Friday. About twelve million years ago, I wrote a fan letter to [...]
Friend Friday
When I count my blessings, I count among them wonderful creators for kidlit who -- no matter how famous and [...]
Friend Friday
I met Barb Kerley through my writing partner, Mary Nethery. The two of them were in a critique group together [...]
Friend Friday
I met the incredibly energetic Beth Bacon through the Vermont MFA program, even though she and I are practically neighbors [...]
Winston Writes
She gets all the credit but I do all the hard work, digging through old newspapers and archives. I guess [...]
Winston Writes
This is my face when my writer asks my opinion about her first draft. I know honesty is the best [...]
Friend Friday
I never tire of hearing stories of book creators' road to publication. Amy O'Quinn has a great one to tell [...]
Friend Friday
This is a first: a multi-generational blog post!! Instigated by the energetic Meg Ferrante. I wish you could all meet [...]
Winston Writes
There's only one thing wrong with this book. I didn't write it. But dogs have such a hard time getting [...]
Friend Friday
Emily Whitman is in the house! We both had sand between our toes the first time we met, at a [...]
Friend Friday
I don't know how it is that Heather Bouwman chooses to be friends with a slacker like me-- in addition [...]