Friend Friday
I met Roxanne Lambie at a reading association conference in El Paso, if I remember correctly. She was at a table with her first book, Quantum (Clean Reads) and I [...]
Friend Friday
Though I love to read nonfiction, I am almost more fascinated by why its writers choose the topics that they choose. That is why I am especially grateful that Loree [...]
Friend Friday
What a treat it is to host a fellow dog-lover! I think I may have met Wendy Wahman through her delightful, Don't Lick the Dog, before I actually met her, [...]
Friend Friday
I had the pleasure of being with Diana Noble at a conference recently. We hit it right off and she didn't mind my asking a favor at our very first [...]
Friend Friday
Even though I'd hardly known Diana Lopez for five minutes, when I asked her to be a Friend Friday guest, she immediately said yes! It was at a Scholastic event [...]
Friend Friday
When I count my blessings, I count among them wonderful creators for kidlit who -- no matter how famous and busy and award-winning-- graciously agree to be one of my [...]
Friend Friday
I met Barb Kerley through my writing partner, Mary Nethery. The two of them were in a critique group together and when I had the opportunity to attend the Humboldt [...]
Friend Friday
I met the incredibly energetic Beth Bacon through the Vermont MFA program, even though she and I are practically neighbors here in the northwest. Beth gave a reading from a [...]
Friend Friday
I never tire of hearing stories of book creators' road to publication. Amy O'Quinn has a great one to tell about her experience, one which began by asking a simple [...]
Friend Friday
I don't know how it is that Heather Bouwman chooses to be friends with a slacker like me-- in addition to her writing, she's a college professor, homeschooling mom AND [...]