Teen Read Week
I should have posted the night before Tiffany Trent’s night on Readergirlz, but I’m afraid things have been rather busy at both work and in my personal life and the blog is the thing getting pushed aside. But be aware …
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Monsters!
Congratulations to author Nina Hess! A Practical Guide to Monsters has debuted on the New York Times picture book list at #3!
YALOLcat, with a bonus
I think tltrent had a good idea, so here is the thread to post your YA LoLcats. I’ll start it with her suggestion for my MoggetLOL: And for fun, a bonus LOL with selimsa803 ‘s suggestion, which has nothing to …
LOLMogget
I took a picture of Mogget tonight that screams LOLcat to me. But I’m having trouble coming up with a good caption. Here are my two options so far. Suggestions for a better one?
If Mogget could talk, it wouldn’t be like this
I was just telling a friend last night that if my own cat could talk, especially when I first get home at night, it would consist mostly of recrimination for not feeding him fast enough. Winchester, on the other hand, is …
A contest
The prize for which is nothing but bragging rights. Background: I have been roped into a church talent show for this weekend. I could have offered a number of my talents–photography for the display portion, singing a song or playing …
Q&A: Sex in YA
A reader asks: As a teenager, I wanted to read books that didn’t have sex in them. As a writer, I want to create the kind of books that I wanted to read as a teenager. Yet, I was afraid …
Done!
The feeling when an editor looks at the final correction on a galley and passes it back to the typesetter without any more corrections is a very happy moment. It means a lot of things: the first is a feeling of …
Today’s Tales from the Slush Pile
I think the authors I work with can attest that I tend to haunt them. I can’t seem to link to today’s, so I posted it with a link to the comic, which came out in the PW Children’s Bookshelf, a …