Stubborn

Stubborn

Totally unrelated to this post — But look at this massivefrog who lives in my goldfish pond!That’s me. Stubborn.Even though it’s hard to find time to blog while I’m adapting to massive changes at school, working on this MG series with 3 books...
Three Books at Once

Three Books at Once

On Friday, before I left work, I received an email from an assistant editor at HarperCollins giving me a heads-up that I could expect galley copies of THE EIGHTH DAY to arrive on Saturday for my review.Around 7pm on that same day, I received an email from my editor...
Bad Blogger

Bad Blogger

I don’t mean Blogger the host of my site. I mean me, the blogger. I’m trying, but I know I haven’t been visiting as much as I’d like to.School’s back in session, and this year I have:A new curriculumA new report cardA new online grade bookA new classroom website for...
Connecting the Dots

Connecting the Dots

I’ve often called myself a pantster on this blog and confessed that I cannot outline a book I’d want to write. (I can outline a story that sucks … no problem there.) But I’m not really a pantster in the sense that I take off writing with no idea where I’m headed. I...
Happy Tweets

Happy Tweets

You know what I love? Unexpectedly seeing the Twitter bird in the notification bar on my phone screen in the middle of the day. It’s like, Yay – here I am, stuck at work, and somebody out in the world is thinking of me!I just wanted to share some tweets that made me...