Friend Friday
Dear readers of my blog: As most of you know, after many, many years of running this feature, today is my very last Friend Friday. Don't worry -- I haven't [...]
Friend Friday
I so appreciate Margo Sorenson's insights below, about the need to take a story from "oatmeal" to something special and unique. She does it through aloha spirit and puns, resulting [...]
Friend Friday
I am so pleased to host Kristin O'Donnell Tubb today in celebration of her newest novel, Luna Howls at the Moon -- and not just because she's a fellow dog [...]
Friend Friday
While I do not have an origami box for moving multiple minuscule creatures, I am famous for not killing spiders. "What if it's Charlotte?" I always ask. It is clear [...]
Friend Friday
Beth Bacon is one of the hardest working writers I know. One who is not dismayed if the road to publication takes several circuitous routes. I will confess that when [...]
Friend Friday
Oh my goodness: I love Dana Middleton's post today and its reminder that stories do indeed chose us! I'm sure many of us can relate to Dana's story of wanting [...]
Friend Friday
Susan McCormick should probably buy a lottery ticket. Or perhaps a hundred. When she set out to write a medical fantasy that would catch young readers' attention the way Rick [...]
Friend Friday
My memory of meeting Jennifer Richard Jacobson involves nearly throwing myself at her in the exhibit hall at an ALA conference; I love her work so much! Luckily for me, [...]
Friend Friday
I always enjoy hearing the story behind the story and Vicki Conrad's story behind her newest picture book biography is full of twists and turns, not unlike the swampy Everglades [...]
Friend Friday
I had the great fortune to "meet" Jamie Hogan through the Institute of Children's Literature, when I was an instructor there. I don't remember if I was helpful to Jamie, [...]