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Check out the book trailer for Don’t Call Me Baby! by Gwendolyn Heasley (HarperTeen, 2014). From the promotional copy:
All my life, I’ve been known as the girl on that blog.
Do you know what it’s like for everyone to think they know you because of what they read on some stupid website?
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Cynthia and Guadalupe at Texas Book Festival
I love poetry, but not like other people love poetry. No.
I mean, I love poetry.
But it’s not that I just love it, I think I actually need it. Just as nourishment, and sunlight,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Guadalupe Garcia McCall on Writing & Teaching Poetry »
When Cynthia graciously invited me to write a guest post for her blog, she asked if there was a particular writing craft item on my mind. Indeed, there is. And its color is blue.
Blue screen, that is. The kind they use in movie making when they film actors against a blank blue screen and then Cg in the background.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Author-Editor Deborah Halverson on Setting, Wherefore Art Thou? »
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Christian Slater, Annie Hall, Rejection, and Me (Not Necessarily in That Order) by Shawn K. Stout from the Writing Barn. Peek: “That feeling, right there. Do you know the one? That crushing ache? The one right there in the middle of my chest that tells me in that moment I’m unloved by the universe?
By Melissa Walker of readergirlz
In conjunction with Support Teen Literature Day, top young adult authors, editors, teen lit advocates, and readers will “Rock the Drop” by leaving their books in public places for new readers to discover and enjoy.
In recognition of the readergirlz’s seventh birthday of promoting literacy and a love of reading among young women,
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What fun it was to chat with The Horn Book about creepy cuisine, werecats and the kind of shape-shifter I’d most like to be!
Pop over to check it out and join in the conversation!
See also a review of my latest novel,
Continue Reading Five Questions for Cynthia Leitich Smith from The Horn Book »
I have a quote taped on the wall above my computer so it’s the first thing I see every morning when I sit down to write.
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
That little gem comes from some guy named Theodore Roosevelt.
What a simple,
Continue Reading Guest Post & Giveaway: Michele Weber Hurwitz on Musings about Comparisons »
I’ve always had a strong need to break the silence about abuse and oppression, and to speak my truth.
Even my abusers, who repeatedly threatened to kill me if I talked, couldn’t shut down that part of my spirit.
I just found another way to do it while they abused me—not through verbal speech,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Cheryl Rainfield on Writing Bravely »
Wow! What fun I had at the Texas Library Association annual conference in San Antonio. Thank you, Texas librarians, publishers, authors, illustrators, exhibitors and teens for a wonderful event!
With fellow Candlewick YA author E.E. Charlton Trujillo
Author Nikki Loftin
Author-illustrator Don Tate
Author Donna Bowman Bratton & Continue Reading Event Report: Texas Library Association Annual Conference »
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Cover Reveal: Shattered by Mari Mancusi (Scorched #2)(Sourcebooks, 2014). From the promotional copy:
A fiery, action-packed installment in Mari Mancusi’s heart-pounding Scorched trilogy
Trinity, Connor, and Caleb are trying to stay under the radar, holed up in an abandoned West Texas farmhouse.
