Stacy | September 22, 2009

We’re up to almost $1000 on the Kickstarter project for Tu Publishing. Thanks so much to everyone for pledging, and please feel free to share the link with anyone who you think might be interested, even if they can only spare $5. We’re starting this through Kickstarter because it’s secure, run by a third party, [...]

Category: children's literature, community, personal, publishing | 4 Comments »
Tags: children's lit, critiques, health, publishing, small press, ya literature

Stacy | September 17, 2009

I have a standing anime/movie night with several friends (if you’re local, remember: it’s Friday nights, and we don’t always do anime, so you’re welcome to join in and we’ll decide the week before what we’ll watch the next week; email me for details).
We’ve watched a lot of great stuff in the last year or [...]

Category: geekiness | 8 Comments »
Tags: anime, movies

Stacy | September 16, 2009

On Tuesday, I challenged everyone (teens, especially) to respond to my video with videos of their own talking about their experiences with reading and multicultural literature. Since then, I’ve figured out how to not squish my lovely friend Christine, who answered several questions for me, and was able to add music as well. (I really [...]

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Tags: children's literature, multicultural, publishing, small press

Stacy | September 15, 2009

I’m cross-posting this from the Tu Publishing website, the website of my small press. I promised you the announcement of a project, and I’ve finally finished it at 3:15 a.m. I’m going to go ahead and share it everyone despite the video needing a little fine-tuning still. (I seem to have a different resolution camera [...]

Category: children's literature, community, publishing | 6 Comments »
Tags: publishing, small press, work

Stacy | September 11, 2009

Just to let you all know: I have found a day job. Yay for paying the bills! Freelancing is great for many things, especially the flexible schedule, but regular work is hard to come by these days.
It’s not a job with a trade publisher (I’m not going to announce here what it is, to keep [...]

Category: personal, publishing | 2 Comments »
Tags: critiques, publishing, small press, work

Stacy | September 1, 2009

I’ve been rather absentee from the blog lately. I’ve been working on a number of things–catching up on critiques (for those waiting, thanks for your patience), finding a day job (paying the bills is a good thing!), apartment hunting and then rearranging my apartment to allow for a roommate, and a few other things. I [...]

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Tags: random