The Dark Before the Dawn?
I’ve been thinking about what it is that keeps me writing and working at something. Because most of the time it is really hard to keep going. I would never ever give up writing. It’s as much a part of […]
Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
I’ve been thinking about what it is that keeps me writing and working at something. Because most of the time it is really hard to keep going. I would never ever give up writing. It’s as much a part of […]
When I was first published and still living in the hazy, warm dream of having a book out there, on book store shelves and in libraries, many of my friends told me that they had always wanted to write a […]
This is how I think it should be. We rove (or drift) through life examining things of interest, finding them in books or movies or by direct contact. An acorn, a jet plane engine, bruschetta, a grand jete, a lemon […]
….like replacing ‘s’ with ‘z’. I mean how 1987 lame is that? One of the downsides to reading tons of very informative and entertaining editor and agent blogs is that I get a window into the business side of publishing. […]
I follow Book2Book on Twitter.com and they recently posted this article which I thought was interesting. I’m assuming that since Puffin and Viking have a long history of working together this will work out to everyone’s satisfaction. David Almond’s certainly- […]
So I caved, mostly due to writer Nicola Morgan (http://helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com) and her infectious turns of phrase. Plus I am apparently as pliable as a rubber spoon. You can follow me there if you like. Log on to www.twitter.com and search […]
The Woodstock Childrens Library presents: YA! YU? Because its fun!!!!! WRITING YA A TWO-PART WRITING WORKSHOP FOR 12 to17 YEAR- OLDS WITH JO TREGGIARI, AUTHOR OF The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton YA (YOUNG ADULT FICTION) IS THE HOTTEST GENRE […]
Since I cannot for the life of me figure out how to open and show all the other pages on my website including the one listing the writing and publishing blogs I often browse, I thought I’d list them in […]
Sometimes it feels as if nothing is happening. The small moments fade and the epic moments are far between. But part of our problem(—our meaning humans as a whole) is our failure to appreciate things while they’re happening. We’re always […]
This is what I stumbled across (literally) this morning on my walk. It was glossy and black and probably 6 feet long. I’ve seen rat snakes before so I know that they are slow and docile although they look like […]