As those who went to LTUE can attest, it seems that I caught a bad cold either on the plane or on the moment my[…]
Life, the Universe, and Everything is NEXT WEEK! That means I’ll be seeing many of you then. If you’re unable to attend LTUE, though, and[…]
I had such a great time talking to everyone at SCBWI Winter Conference this weekend and teaching the multicultural books breakout. In one of my[…]
In case you’ve missed the tweets/Facebook posts about these things, I thought I’d put them all here for you to refer to. Last week’s #yalitchat[…]
If you didn’t already know, I’m going to be speaking at the end of the month at the New York SCBWI National Conference at the[…]
I don’t know that we’ve ever discussed the concept of the Magical Negro here before, or its equivalent in American storytelling with Asian and Native[…]
Now that it’s been announced in Children’s Bookshelf, I can let you know that I have a new acquisition! Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low[…]
I’ve been reading a number of highly anticipated sequels lately, as well as editing a sequel or two myself. It has me thinking about the[…]
More and more teens are getting e-readers in the last year or so. There was a big wave of e-reader purchases for them at Christmas[…]