I'm pleased and honored to have Serendipity Market chosen as an Illinois READS book for 2014.
Click the link on the right for a full list of the 2014 choices.
Click the link on the right for a full list of the 2014 choices.
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The Beacon School in the Philippines
March 14, 2012
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.
Interview up at readteen.com
March 13, 2012
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.
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) was a Blast!
March 4, 2012
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
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
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Be Bold: Thoughts on Self-Censorship
February 3, 2012
I'll be on a panel at AWP called "How Far is Too Far? Facing Self-censors and Publishing Censors When Writing About Coming of Age for Young Adults" on Friday, March 2 from noon to 1:15 p.m. My co-presenters will be Ann Angel, author of the 2011 YALSA non-fiction award winner Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing; Ricki Thompson, author of City of Cannibals; and Daniel Krauss, ALA’s 2012 Odyssey winner for his novel Rotters. For a preview of what we'll be discussing, click the link on the right and go to Pirate Tree for some comments on censorship. Read More