Friend Friday
Augusta Scattergood (Glory Be, Making Friends with Billy Wong) emailed me awhile back, raving about a friend's new book. "It's [...]
Friend Friday
What an honor to host H.M. Bouwman today! Her book, A Crack in the Sea, (G.P. Putnam and Sons Books [...]
Friend Friday
I can't think of a more fitting way to ring in the new year than with the words and thoughts [...]
Friend Friday
(For most of this month, I have been celebrating readers, rather than writers. Enjoy this little diversion and then stop [...]
Friend Friday
If you follow Friend Friday, you know I usually use this feature to celebrate writers; for most of this month, [...]
Friend Friday
This regular blog feature is celebrating readers, instead of writers, most of this month (check back on December 30 for [...]
Friend Friday
I'm doing something a tiny bit different for the next few weeks; instead of shining the spotlight on friends' new [...]
Friend Friday
The first time I met Lynn Brunelle, she asked for ground pepper. A whole dish of it! And our host was [...]
Friend Friday
Please welcome Robert Wilder today and help me celebrate his new book, Nickel (Leaf Storm Press), with its can't miss [...]
Friend Friday
Ginger Wadsworth and I met at the amazing Humboldt County Authors Festival eons ago. She is a lovely person and [...]
Friend Friday
I have a passion for chapter books -- they were the first of my stories to be published. They're little [...]
Friend Friday
I am so very lucky to count among my friends some of the most talented, generous and kind people in [...]
Friend Friday
It is such an honor for me to host Sharon Mentyka. I first met Sharon through the (sadly now-defunct) Whidbey [...]
Book Birthday!
Today is the book birthday for Liberty -- hooray! Writing Liberty was like wrassling alligators in a vat of gumbo. My [...]
Friend Friday
Though I have yet to meet Alexandra Diaz in person, she is in a critique group with my dear, dear [...]
Throwback Thursday
My newest book, Liberty (it publishes in a few short days, on October 11), is set in New Orleans during [...]
Friend Friday
I first met Uma Krishnaswami via email, when, as then faculty chair, she invited me to be a guest lecturer [...]
Throwback Thursday
On one of my trips to New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina, I stumbled on an art collective displaying the work [...]
Wednesday Wisdom
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
Friend Friday
Please welcome Sarah Darer Littman, author of multiple YA novels, including the Sydney Taylor Book Award winner, Confessions of a Closet [...]