Maybe the point of conferences is not so much to learn things, but to have fun. That seems to be mostly what I came away from the SCBWI National Conference with. Besides discovering the secret to looking perky when exhausted (cannot divulge) and being reminded in Jay Asher’s session that The Monster at the End …
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The Conference May Have Killed Me, But It Was SO Fun!
The SCBWI National Conference was so, so, so, so, so fun, even though it may have killed me. Every muscle in my brain got a workout. Smiling muscles too. Lots of smiling. Once I get my pics together I’ll post some. Some things I learned from the conference: –Bruce Coville is quite a dancer as …
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Thoreau and My Quest for New Shoes
When Barrett and I started sorting through our things to move to Portland from Madison, I thought after we moved that I would start to live a Thoreau-like existence of simplicity. Sure, we were moving to the city, not the country, but what with all of the trees around, what difference would that tiny detail …
Fame is Mine!
I’m on the homepage of the CCBC website — a good ten percent of the time or so. Woo hoo! Today the CCBC homepage, tomorrow the cover of People. You have to hit refresh on the CCBC’s website to go through all of the pics. So I’m saving you some trouble by posting the image …
Friday Six! May 23
We’re counting down to our last two weeks in Madison now and this week “lasts” were coming around like crazy. The lasts (for now anyway): 1) Last CCBC Book Discussion — the books were so depressing this month too! Three of them were about war and one of them was a kidnapping/creepy guy story. I’ve …
SCBWI-WI Spring Luncheon Last Saturday
Featured Sarah Cloots from Greenwillow, a schmancy country club with lots of big windows (there was even hand lotion in the bathroom), and gigantic delicious salads. Everyone and everything was super fun and fabulous as usual. The directions, however, were not super fab. As a matter of fact, they lead us out into the middle …
Friday Six!!!
Yes, I am copying Sarah Dessen’s blog idea, but I think her Friday Five blog where she writes about five interesting things is totally fabulous. As I can’t compete with her entertainment-wise (she’s so funny!), I’m going with Six — quantity over quality. Friday Six! Woo Hoo! So here’s number 1) I can’t believe it …
Writers Group Weekend with the Fabulous Gretchen Hirsch
A whole entire month has flown by since my writers group’s spring editor retreat. It was brilliant and thrilling and everything a retreat weekend should be, and yet… I haven’t blogged about it. Why, you might ask? If it was so brilliant and thrilling and so on WHY haven’t you blogged about it? Everyone wants …
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Hurray for my first teen reader!
The first teen reader of my mischief novel manuscript loved it! Woo hoo! She had all sorts of intelligent and insightful things to say AND she said it actually changed the way she saw certain kids at school. Yes! What more can a writer ask for? Thanks to the original Maddie for the great feedback! …
WI Book Fest
I was lucky enough to be asked to introduce several authors for the WI Book Fest last weekend. Very exciting as no one has ever asked me to do this before. However, I’m guessing that the organizers weren’t anticipating that I would a) make fun of the title of the author panel I was introducing …