Autumn Harvest and Waldorf Homecoming
I wonder if how people are jerked by the heartstrings while driving along during fall harvest. I drove from home to Forest City, Iowa and back on Saturday for Waldorf Homecoming. On the way down, I passed too many combines to count. The first field I passed where...
One Long Eventful 24 Hours
Children's Lit class kicked off this 24-hour period. We talked about Dr. Seuss, but we spent most of the class period talking about banned books and censorship. Most of us were in agreement that talking with kids as they read difficult material or questionable...
Pull your socks up!
From a student paper: "Most of us experience hardship through our life but we should pull our socks up and work hard in order to get what we want to accomplish."Amen to that. Let's pull our socks up.
Bum Glue
Bryce Courtenay says 'bum glue' is a critical key to writing - relentless discipline, no excuses, just get on with it.Bryce Courtenay wrote one of my favorite novels ever, The Power of One, set in South Africa. Ever since reading that novel for the first...
Addendum @ Subtext this afternoon
That's the name of a new bookstore in St. Paul that sells only YA! How cool is that?I'm headed up there to sign copies of Chasing AllieCat (along with many other Minnesota YA authors signing books) for the grand opening this afternoon. It's below Nina's Coffee House...
Slider's Son
So George, my agent, and I had a talk today about what to do with Slider's Son. Zondervan is saying a tentative no. We're walking away from that "without closing the door."George thinks this is going to be the next place to send it. They want historical fiction! And...
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