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Comfort Reading

08.09.2011

I’m a huge fan of comfort food. There’s nothing in the world that a good dish of hot, creamy mac and cheese can’t fix. Just saying. Some people find comfort from settling in and watching old movies. Sometimes, though, it can be a book that lets you downshift and exhale. I’m reading one of those [...]

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Get Second Sight

28.03.2011

I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I read in Cheryl Klein‘s blog that she was publishing it. Second Sight is a collection of her talks at various writing conferences, between 2003 and 2010, as well as her blog posts. It was worth the wait. From picture books to YA, Cheryl covers: what makes [...]

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Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo…

30.06.2010

Surprises? I can take or leave them. Yesterday, I loved them. I’ve been keeping my distance from my MG WIP, circling around it, poking at it with a stick. Just when I was ready to chew myself out for procrastinating not sitting down and working on it, a rush of ideas found me—for another manuscript [...]

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Now What?

09.06.2010

So I’ve finished my draft of my middle grade work-in-progress. Okay, it’s draft 3 1/2. Sort of. This has been such a haphazard project, written is spurts that were both out of sequence and sometimes out of sync—certainly a pantser of a chapter book. But now that I have a working draft of the story, [...]

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