Wow! This certainly made my day. I received an email from Marge Shaffer of the Maryland Association of School Librarians telling me that Joha Makes A Wish was nominated in the Picture Book category for for the 2013-2014 Black-Eyed Susan Book Award. Children in Maryland schools read the books and vote for their favorite in [...]
Elizabeth Winthrop has her post up. You can find it by clicking HERE.
I just returned from a memorable trip to Turkey. I visited the SEV schools in Istanbul and Tarsus. So many adventures! I’m sorting out my photos. I’ll be blogging about my experiences soon. In the meantime, I have to share this story. If you’ve been following my blog, you know about my pet snake, Pirate. [...]
I just received an email letting me know that Richard Kimmel is following me on Twitter. Really!!!! Wow!!! Richard Kimmel was my smart cousin Richard. He was handsome, brilliant, talented. He could do anything and he did it all. Compared to Richard, the rest of the Kimmel cousins were a bunch of slobs. Richard went [...]
My last post was Ouch! This one is Eeeeek!!! I’ll tell you why. About five years ago I volunteered to be part of a medical study attempting to find out whether taking vitamin E and selenium supplements could help reduce the chances of getting prostate cancer. Why not? I was in perfect health. I’d be [...]
My critique group was winding up its bi-monthly meeting. We were in Nancy Coffelt’s living room. Before we called it a night and went home, I raised a question. It had been on my mind for some time. I asked the group: “What exactly is a memoir?” Every time I scan the New Book shelf [...]
An interesting email came in yesterday that started me thinking. The writer was either a teacher or parent. She wrote to say how much she enjoyed my books. Then she asked me to tell her which ones corresponded to a list of values that she provided. The values were certainly the sort you would want [...]
Here’s another post based on my notes from the Oregon Coast Children’s Book Writers Workshop. If you’re interested in nonfiction, you’ll need to read this one. Liz Rusch is a Portland writer who specializes in nonfiction. Liz has worked both sides of the desk as a writer and as an editor. She had several suggestions [...]
The last time I wrote I posted some of my notes from the Oregon Coast Children’s Book Writers Workshop at Oceanside. Here are more ideas for writers, especially for doing research and writing nonfiction articles. Margriet Ruurs gave an outstanding talk using Apple’s Keynote program to highlight the points she wanted to make. I was [...]
I spent last week out of town and off the grid in Oceanside, Oregon, where I was one of the faculty at the Oregon Coast Children’s Book Writers Workshop. This was my second year at the conference. Frankly, I wonder if the attendees got as much out if it as I did. And I’ve been [...]
