I’m home sick today, coughing up a lung, and being completely bored. There’s a strange program on the arts channel right now of muddy wild horses, silent except for the classical music accompanying the footage. I don’t recognize the composer, …
As sarazarr just pointed out, the Utah Arts Council’s Writing Competition is open for submissions. For my Utah friends, this is a contest for your novels that have NOT been published. I am thinking of at least two different people I …
I’ve never participated in Poetry Friday before, thing many children’s lit blogs do. I’m not even sure who started it–I just see it everywhere. But at any rate, my post about little cat feet made me remember that perhaps I might …
If just because I loved watching Mikhail Baryshnikov dance when I was a kid, and because I love Vladimir Radunsky’s whimsical illustrations. From the sound of the text, Baryshnikov was more of an advisor than a writer, and Radunksy wrote …
So the Dresden Files book #1 is becoming a good example of both good points and bad. While I love–love–the TV show, the book is giving me mixed feelings. I have only read 2 chapters so far, so you’re getting …
I didn’t hear about it till early this evening, driving across town when the BBC World News came on and reported the number dead. One of Mirrorstone’s authors teaches at VT, but as her post about it says, thankfully she …
No fog came today, but I had plenty of little cat feet around.
You’ve caught me on a working Saturday, but I needed a break, so I paused to read a chapter of my much-anticipated new copy of Storm Front by Jim Butcher, the first book in the Dresden Files. As you might …
A couple, actually, one I just found out about today, and one that I found out about a while ago that I forgot to link way back when. And I still owe you guys a complete links list, but then, …
If you are interested in children’s literature and reviewing and publishing, consider applying for the Horn Book internship. As Roger Sutton notes, maybe someday 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast will interview you like they did Alvina Ling (which you should …