Friend Friday
Dear readers of my blog: As most of you know, after many, many years of running this feature, today is [...]
Friend Friday
I so appreciate Margo Sorenson's insights below, about the need to take a story from "oatmeal" to something special and [...]
Friend Friday
I am so pleased to host Kristin O'Donnell Tubb today in celebration of her newest novel, Luna Howls at the [...]
Friend Friday
While I do not have an origami box for moving multiple minuscule creatures, I am famous for not killing spiders. [...]
Friend Friday
Beth Bacon is one of the hardest working writers I know. One who is not dismayed if the road to [...]
Friend Friday
Oh my goodness: I love Dana Middleton's post today and its reminder that stories do indeed chose us! I'm sure [...]
Friend Friday
Susan McCormick should probably buy a lottery ticket. Or perhaps a hundred. When she set out to write a medical [...]
Friend Friday
My memory of meeting Jennifer Richard Jacobson involves nearly throwing myself at her in the exhibit hall at an ALA [...]
Friend Friday
I always enjoy hearing the story behind the story and Vicki Conrad's story behind her newest picture book biography is [...]
Friend Friday
Today's guest is my first ever international friend! Paddy Donnelly lives and works in Belgium though his Irish roots certainly [...]
Friend Friday
I had the great fortune to "meet" Jamie Hogan through the Institute of Children's Literature, when I was an instructor [...]
Friend Friday
In 2013, I went to a literary arts festival in Portland and ended up with a new friend: Susan Hill [...]
Friend Friday
As much as I love celebrating my friends' work for Friend Friday, it is an especial delight to celebrate a [...]
Friend Friday
I will confess, upon reading Amy Butler Greenfield's essay below, my stomach lurched. Give up a project that was "one [...]
Friend Friday
As someone who also does a daunting amount of research for my books, I completely relate to Rob Sanders' experiences, [...]
Friend Friday
On her website, Beth Anderson describes writing as mining -- "digging deep for memories, emotion, and meaning." Her essay below [...]
Friend Friday
What a way to kick off a new month: a joint Friend Friday post from two gifted creatives, Liz Garton [...]
Friend Friday
One of my passions is to tell little-known stories of the past; clearly Shari Becker and Louisa Jaggar share that [...]
Friend Friday
What a pleasure to celebrate author/illustrator Don Tate today! The experiences he shares below remind me a bit of the [...]
Friend Friday
I so appreciate Suzanne Kaufman for many reasons, two of which are her perseverance with getting this post to me [...]