Don’t Google Yourself

“And if you can’t stand the heat of the blogosphere – don’t Google yourself.”  This is the conclusion of an article in the Guardian about the latest dust-up in the blogosphere around young adult book reviews where readers duke it out over their...

The Reviewer/Author relationship

It seems like these days, everyone is a reviewer.  One of my fav bogs is YA Highway.   Yesterday (Jan. 6, 2011) Veronica Roth posted a really thoughtful piece on the reviewer/author relationship.  Whether you are an author, reviewer or a consumer of books, it’s...
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

I never travel without a book or two or three, but that doesn’t stop me from buying new ones along the way, even if I haven’t finished what I brought.  So, at a cute little bookstore along the wharf in San Francisco I picked up Jay Asher’s Thirteen...

SCBWI Conference here I come

So this morning I’m leaving for the LA SCBWI conference Monday morning.  Taking the ferry over to the lovely Olympic Peninsula, then heading down the I-5 with a detour to Nevada so that I can fit in a quick visit to my  mom.  Probably won’t get much of a...

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