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To catch you up, I was on vacation last week (went camping with a group of teen girls from church, got rained on a lot),[…]

I’m up to my gleezers, as Galaxy Games alien M’Frozza would say, in printer proofs for Fall books. I’ve been working on a post to[…]

Pictures from a recent visit to NYC by Cynthia Leitich Smith! These were taken in Feb. 2011, but I completely forgot to post them. What’s[…]

And finally, part 3. Read parts 1 and 2 here and here. So now let’s talk about writing cross-culturally! Writing Cross-culturally A few months ago,[…]

See here for part 1. Many authors have broken that mold & followed Ursula K. Le Guin’s admonition to write more of the “other.” But[…]

Here you go! The first installment. Note that this was written to be spoken, so sometimes the diction might seem a little weird for a[…]

To hold you over until I can get my own talk up, here’s an even better talk by author Chimamanda Adichie, which I told everyone[…]

I’m going to be out of town at NESCBWI this weekend, which means that I’m going to miss the street fair they do every year[…]

Just got invited last minute to join a panel at ASJA on Saturday on “Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch” from 11 a.m. to noon this Saturday,[…]

For those who were looking for the slides from my conference—including anyone who wanted to go but couldn’t make it, and those who are interested[…]