Penny Blubaugh

Zarah Gagatiga, librarian at the Beacon School in the Philippines has made me their author of the month! Read her review of Serendipity Market as well as our interview by clicking on the link on the right.

Readteen.com is a new book/author/review/interview site. Check out my interview and while you're there read about Michelle Ray, author of Falling for Hamlet.

I'm back from AWP and it was a great conference. I spoke on two panels. The first was on censorship and self-censorship. The panel was chaired by Laura Otto from Mount Mary University. Panelists included Ricki Thompson who wrote City of Cannibals who spoke about sex in YA lit; Daniel Kraus, author of Rotters, who talked about violence; Ann Angel, author of Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing who talked about drugs and their effects; and myself -- I talked about editorial decisions and their effects on writing.

The audience was thoughtful and really added to the discussion. Special thanks to the woman who bought a copy of Serendipity Market. I'll misspell your name horribly but I hope you enjoy it! And thanks for coming to our reading!

Which leads to the next panel -- readings! Kiara Koenig read essays that came from Through the Wardrobe and A Friday Night Lights Companion; Tami Brown read her picture book Soar Elinor!; Zu Vincent, author of The Lucky Place read from a work in progress, J.L. Powers read from This Thing Called the Future; and I read The Cabeza River Run from Serendipity Market.

Again, a great audience at the last program on the last day of the conference. Thanks to all of you! Read More