New Ross school
Just did a reading and talk with the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades at the New Ross School. Some of them actually gave up their free period/floor hockey game to come and listen to me jabber. I had to […]
Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
Just did a reading and talk with the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades at the New Ross School. Some of them actually gave up their free period/floor hockey game to come and listen to me jabber. I had to […]
Hello all, I will be appearing at Barnes & Noble (1177 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY) on Sunday November 16 at 2pm during the Cahill Elementary School Book Fair. I’ll be reading an excerpt from the new manuscript, “Feltus Ovalton and […]
I lead a lot of writing workshops for kids and sometimes the will is there, all raring to go, but the well is dry, so to speak. My writing teacher- the amazing novelist and memoirist Abigail Thomas- used to give […]
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Because it’s the beginning of August (the leisure month), and Because I’ve just, finally, after more sleepless nights than I care to think about, finished the manuscript for my new book, Feltus Ovalton and The Lost Warrior, and Because I […]
HERE ARE SOME OF THE GREAT KIDS- ALL WONDERFULLY ENTHUSIASTIC, ARTISTIC AND TALENTED WRITERS- WHO ATTENDED MY MEGA-SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP AT THE WOODSTOCK LIBRARY. WE WROTE, WE TALKED, I PONTIFICATED AND I DIGRESSED, AND WE DRESSED UP FOR THE FINAL […]
Ladies and Germs, We have a winner for the PoodleRat naming contest. Thanks to all who entered. The names were all fabulous but after much deliberation and with the help of Winston the toad I have decided that the name […]
This sort of follows the theme of my last blog. I’ve been thinking a lot of the power of the subconscious mind and in particular dreams and that short interval between waking and sleeping which is often a time when […]
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