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 …
Joseph Campbell’s reading list
I don’t know if I’ve really ever talked all that much about my love of fairy and folk tales on this blog. I mean, I talk about how fantasy draws from those traditions, but I love the tales themselves and finding out about …