Friend Friday
Today's friend is *ahem* me. Since I had a new book launch on January 31, I thought it would be [...]
Friend Friday
At one point in our careers, Sundee Frazier and I shared an editor who suggested we meet. Our coffee shop [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Me!
Get out your party hats and horns! Today is the book birthday of the second of the Audacity Jones' books: [...]
Friend Friday
Nanci Turner Steveson is a repeat Friend Friday essayist. Her new book, Georgia Rules (Harper Collins) is not out for [...]
School Visits!
I have spent three days this week in the amazing CyFair school district, and will spend five more days next [...]
Friend Friday
There are so many terrific people in the kid lit world, and Margie Culver is pretty near the top of my [...]
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 [...]