Best birthday ever! I’m a little over halfway into my Two Week Birthday Extravaganza that included lots of fun times, pampering, and a French Revolution Birthday Party (this involved a lot of cake, at least one tiara, and Robespierre bars). And the most lovely present of them all — a year’s supply of firewood! This …
Author Archives: Bridget Zinn
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! …
REPOSSESSED
I’ve officially recommended REPOSSESSED by A.M. Jenkins to about the 500th person over the age of fourteen. It’s incredibly funny, the voice is strong, and the main character is strangely beguiling — he is, after all, the bad guy — a fallen angel who takes over someone’s body while on a little break from hell. …
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 …
Patricia MacLachlan, Espresso Cookies, and Pumpkin Bread
Patricia MacLachlan was a great Charlotte Zolotow lecturer, telling stories I’m sure would make her children cringe but brought down the house (so to speak, this was an academic lecture no one threw confetti or anything — maybe I’ll bring some next year and see how it goes over) and welcomed everyone into her family, …
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Brownies, Tiaras, and SCBWI-WI
I made it on Cynthia Lord’s blog! With a big old photo and everything. The SCBWI WI fall retreat was fabulous. I think my favorite parts were, of course, showing Joy Neaves and Cynthia Lord (two exceptionally lovely women) the CCBC as it is the best place on earth and who wouldn’t want to show …
There’s Something About Chocolate Film Is Finished!!!!!
You can view There’s Something About Chocolate on my film page. This was shot using a Kodak Easyshare V705 digital camera. Yes, that is a still camera! Our usual video camera, a Sony Mini DV, was having some issues so we thought we’d try out the video aspect of our still digital camera. You don’t …
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The Wednesday Wars
So so good. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, the Lizzie Bright/Newbery Honor winning guy, is absolutely fabbity fab and has all sorts of satisfying bits that gave me that wow life is a great thing feeling despite the fact that the main character has so many things going against him. It’s set in …
There’s Something About Chocolate Film Update
David, the Sound Guy, had some technical who-si-whatsits over the weekend that kept him from finishing the sound for the film. While I’m not quite sure what he’s talking about, I do have high hopes for the film getting finished today! It is only a small thing really to sacrifice one’s birthday for the greater …
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Harry Potter Party Pics from Way Back in July
Great costumes from two of our favorite CCBC Librarians at the Harry Potter party in Madison at B&N East. There’s Madame Hooch, Professor McGonagall, Professor Umbridge and me (sadly costumeless).