Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
Here’s a link to an article from British newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, regarding the proposal made by most of the large publishers to begin banding children’s books with age-appropriate tags, and what author Philip Pullman has to say about it. […]
The other day my 5-year old brought home his book wish list from school. They’re having a book fair (probably a Scholastic thing) with an assortment of fiction and non-fiction, picture books and chapter books. I’ve seen the sort of […]
When I was 9 and 10, my best friend was named Miriam. She looked like a very pretty brown mouse. She had tiny, deft hands, and a soft voice with a French accent, and she moved with very precise movements. […]
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I’m not sure where this expression comes from. I’m assuming it’s got something to do with riding horses really fast without bridle or stirrups maybe, but in any case it’s apt, no? It means no holds barred; giving it all […]
Here are some of the great kids who invited me to tea at their school. We had mint gumdrops, iced tea, goldfish crackers and gummy worms, and I answered questions about the book and about writing. They were remarkably clever […]
Its all in the details. This, by the way, is something that J.K.Rowling does extremely well. Her characters, her settings live and breathe (if a setting can be said to breathe) because of all the glorious detail she puts in. […]
You know that myth about goldfish? That they can live quite happily for years in a small bowl with perhaps a wisp of artificial seaweed, some colored rocks, or a plastic deep sea diver? Supposedly its because their memories and […]