Friend Friday
I have so many book creator friends, including the brave, resilient and funny Laurel Snyder. Today she is sharing a bit about her newest book, Orphan Island (HarperCollins ). *ahem* [...]
Friend Friday
Tracey Baptiste looks sweet and innocent but she can write one heck of a creepy story, as her first book, The Jumbies, proved. Now, she's back with a sequel, Rise [...]
Friend Friday
I am so pleased to host Dorinda Nicholson today for Friend Friday! I am a huge fan of hers, going back to my first encounter with her work in Pearl [...]
Friend Friday
I have found more new friends (and books to add to my TBR pile!) over at the Nerdy Book Club. If you don't follow that blog, I encourage you to. [...]
Friend Friday
Even though we are practically neighbors, J. Anderson Coats and I are still only cyber friends. I hope that changes soon! I love that she writes YA and middle grade, [...]
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: Audacity Jones Steals The Show (Scholastic). In her first adventure (Audacity Jones [...]
Throwback Thursday
My newest book, Liberty (it publishes in a few short days, on October 11), is set in New Orleans during WWII. I adore this city, which has the kindest citizens [...]
Throwback Thursday
On one of my trips to New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina, I stumbled on an art collective displaying the work of local artists. One piece I fell in love with [...]
Throwback Thursday
The newest book in the WWII Dog series that I'm writing for Scholastic is Liberty (due out October 11) , which features Fish Elliott who had been stricken by polio at [...]
Throwback Thursday
I may look sweet and innocent but I have an evil plan: I want to turn kids into ravenous readers of historical fiction. And, serendipitously, I've discovered one way to be [...]