Awesome Austin Writers Workshop

Awesome Austin Writers Workshop

Sparkling local writers joined forces at the Awesome Austin Writers Workshop from June 27 to June 29 at my home.

The objectives were to build and nurture an already strong youth literature writing community (we rock!), to exchange ideas (we shared!), to support one another (we cheered!), to gain insights into our works in progress (we learned!),

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Author Interview: Jennifer O’Connell on Everything I Needed to Know About Being A Girl I Learned from Judy Blume

Author Interview: Jennifer O’Connell on Everything I Needed to Know About Being A Girl I Learned from Judy Blume

Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl, I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O’Connell (Simon & Schuster, 2007). From the promotional copy: “Whether laughing to tears reading Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great or clamoring for more unmistakable “me too!” moments in Are You There God? It’s Me,

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Celebrating Vermont College of Fine Arts

UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY AND VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ANNOUNCE SALE OF MONTPELIER CAMPUS & FINE ARTS PROGRAMS

Sale marks the beginning of Vermont College of Fine Arts;
Union Institute & University continues to serve students from the campus

Cincinnati, Ohio and Montpelier, Vt. – June 24, 2008 – Union Institute & University (UI&U) and Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) today announced they have completed the purchase agreement for the historic Vermont College campus and the three Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs located in Montpelier,

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Author Interviews: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Author Interviews: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Guess who’s out and about on the Web? I’m honored to announce two new interviews:

(1) Cynthia Leitich Smith: An Interview with an Internet Icon & Legend from Mary Hershey and Robin LaFevers at Shrinking Violet Promotions.

Peek: “I enjoy the blogs as a way of ‘pajama outreach’–you don’t have to put on dry-clean-only clothes and get in the car/plane to do it.

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Author Interview: Debbi Michiko Florence on China: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book

 

Debbi Michiko Florence on Debbi Michiko Florence: “I was born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles. My parents were also born in California. I am a third-generation Japanese-American.

“In college, I majored in zoology and minored in English. I volunteered as a raptor rehabilitator, interned as a zoo keeper’s aide,

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