Shopping? Another new independent bookstore has opened! If you’re in the area, visit Andrea Kristina’s Bookstore and Kafe at 218 W. Main Street in Farmington, New Mexico.
Revising? Surf over to Uma Krishnaswami’s notes on Negotiating the Revision Maze, presented at the SCBWI New Mexico Handsprings conference in Albuquerque April 25, 2003.
Presenting?
Ah, Monday after the holidays. Time to ease right in and…
Nope! I could barely carry in all my mail!
Let’s see, what do we have here?
My cousin Stacy sends me a grey beaded choker necklace for my birthday. Lovely! Stacy is a teacher in Topeka and lives with her family in Lawrence.
Spent much of yesterday reading A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl, a novel in poems manuscript, by Tanya Lee Stone, which will be published by Wendy Lamb Books, Random House in ’06. It’s Stone’s first novel though she is the author of more than 75 other books. It’s a fantastic manuscript–hip, edgy, and addicting.
Last night, I pulled on a slinky long black dress, slinky long black opera shoes, and sassy black cowboy boots. Greg and I had dinner and danced at the Four Seasons Lake Austin (a simultaneous birthday and new year is a lot of “date” pressure on a husband).
Dinner was, hm, something small with lobster and avocado,
“The Little Black Dog Gallery and Bookshop was started by children’s book author Jackie French Koller. Jackie has written over thirty books for children of all ages including picture books, chapter books, novels and series.” Visit online and at 16 Union Avenue in Westfield, MA.
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I’m officially a year older today. There’s nothing like having your birthday on New Year’s Eve to make a person reflective. Sort of a double whammy.
So, for 2004, I must say–to mutilate Dickens–it was the best and worst of times. I visited San Francisco and sold my second novel and hosted a novelist workshop and went “home”
Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Web Site offers a new online article, “The Holocaust Through Kids’ Books.”
Received a review copy of In The Small, Small Night by Jane Kurtz, illustrated by Rachel Isadora (Greenwillow, 2005). Kurtz’s 2004 fantasy, The Feverbird’s Claw, also was a Parents’ Choice award winner.
In other news, Mercury, Bashi, Leo & Blizzy have a new vet; you can learn more about her at Cats Love House Calls.
It was a beautiful 70 something degrees and sunny here in Austin. I enjoyed lunch with Greg and Anne Bustard (author of Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly (Simon & Schuster, 2005)) at Guero’s to celebrate her sale of “Do-Si-Fido” to Ladybug; then Anne and I did some shopping on South Congress and she picked up a birthday present for a friend at Mi Casa (one of my fave stores!).
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