Preview for Hallow-wii?
I sure hope that this video is an entrant in the Have a Happy Hallow-wii contest. I found it via so I can’t tell you whether it is or not, but I hope these teens know about it! Deadline is …
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Home from KW, back to work
Oh, what a weekend! I don’t have time this morning to post a full report of all the great people I met and things I learned, but I will say that it was just what I needed. I have a …
Word count bar?
I’ve seen them on writers’ blogs, so I know they exist–those little graphics that you can post that show how far you’ve gotten in the current project? Anyone know where I might find one? I have a project or two …
Flowers for Mitzi
Happy Appreciate a Dragon Day.
Congrats to all the winners
The library awards have been announced.I have a copy of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! on my shelf that I’ve been meaning to get to. Now that it’s won a Newbery, perhaps I should see what the fuss is about! I …
On to the meat farms
I feel like the circumstances of M.T. Anderson’s Feed come closer to possibility every day. Is it just me that’s completely creeped out? I know this could help for transplants and all that. Perhaps I just read too much science fiction.
The rest of Midwinter
It’s been rather a whirlwind weekend. I got to see Candice Ransom several times, at her signings, and dinner, and sat with her listening to several committees discuss outstanding children’s literature. If you haven’t seen her blog yet, it’s a …
day one of ALA Midwinter
The day of travel got off to a rough start with the cab arriving 40 minutes late, which meant that I pretty much missed my flight—or so I thought. Thinking that I would have to take the next flight and …
3-2-1 workshopping
My friend explains today how her writing group has learned to prioritize critiques so that the most important information gets emphasized most to the writer getting critiqued. Check it out: In my writing group, we use the 3-2-1 system for …