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It’s been a while! I’m in the middle of changing a few things around here, including updating my bio, my editorial services, links, and more.[…]

The more I dig into this particular generation of my family–the immigrants I’d been chasing for decades to figure out where they’d come from in[…]

Ah, vacation time, when I can at last have time to pause and read my submissions and prepare my presentations! No, really, I’m going home[…]

Today is #DVpit on Twitter, which is an event in which writers post pitches for their books on the hashtag and agents who like those[…]

Let’s talk about middle grade books, young adult books, and that liminal space between, that magic spot of readers ages 10-14 who read up.  There’s[…]

Thanks to audiobooks, I read 144 books in 2016. (If you look at that list, some are still in progress—the problem with relying on the[…]

I often discuss diverse books with people, especially white people, who need the “101”—parents and other people who love children who want to give them[…]

I always swore I wouldn’t be one of those people who let my blog languish while I moved on to other things, but here I[…]

This post was originally posted on the Lee & Low blog.   I’ve long been a fan of mysteries. Trixie Belden was my BFF as[…]

In case you missed it, I’m open again for submissions to the New Visions Award. Details can be found on this blog post. This is[…]