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
I am full of emotion as I write this introduction. First: my heart brims with joy to be hosting Cynthia Leitich Smith in celebration of her latest middle grade novel, [...]
Friend Friday
I adore Irene Latham and not just because she included a poem inspired by Hattie Big Sky in her collaboration with Charles Waters, Dictionary for a Better World, illustrated by [...]
Friend Friday
My sweet friend Helen Ketteman and I have known each other longer than dirt's been around. In our early writing careers, we were part of a magical group called The [...]
Friend Friday
What a sincere pleasure and honor it is to host Clare Meeker today. Clare and I have both been at this writing business for a long, long time (back to [...]
Friend Friday
Today's guest is a friend from the (sadly) now-defunct Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA program. I was the first faculty member in the children's literature arm of the program [...]