Hi, everyone! I’ve been trying to get around to everyone’s blog — which includes more than the usual number because I participated in a blog hop this week. But I’ve been battling a cold which would like very much to turn into a sinus infection...
Next Monday, school starts for my children and for my former teaching colleagues, but not for me. This is the first time I haven’t started school in the fall since I was a kindergartner. To distract me from this major life change, my husband suggested I do...
Yes, my daughter Gabrielle now has a driver’s license. How did that happen? Wasn’t it only last year that she was THIS big? The driver’s license thing happened during my last full week of teaching, so on top of the stress of ending both the...
It’s June 18th, and I have one week left of being a teacher. Today would have been the end of this school year if it hadn’t been for all the snow. It’s hard to believe we were actually scheduled to go this late into June – one of those awful school board...
Writing YA is awesome. Hearing from teen readers who loved We Hear the Dead and The Caged Graves has been a high point of my publishing experience. But here are 3 reasons why I’m loving Middle Grade: 1. BOOK LOGS 2. SNAIL MAIL 3. FAN FICTION This...
Ellen Jensen Abbott, Kit Grindstaff, Nancy Viau, and meat a Barnes & Noble Educator ReceptionOne thing I’ve learned after the release of two previous books is that – unless you’re JK Rowling, Rick Riordan, Jeff Kinney, or someone else in that stratosphere of...