My book! Isn’t it shiny?
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
A year buds, swells, blooms, dies.
All things considered, I really dug 2010, despite its rather inauspicious beginning at which I learned that my book, originally slated to slide into the world in the fall of 2010, was to be delayed until 2011. That was a … Continue reading
In Which I Engage In Competitive Storytelling With My Son And He Totally Wins.
Leo, my six-year-old juvenile-delinquent Kindergartener, has bested his mama at Stories. Look, I can admit when I’ve been beat. It takes a big man – or woman, in my case – to concede the fight. Leo! You win! Here’s what … Continue reading
And another thing……
I just finished reading Genevieve Valentine’s glorious novel Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, and HOLY HECK. That novel knocked me out, down and sideways. Now, I’ll write more about it when we get closer to its release date … Continue reading
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Tagged circus, Genevieve Valentine, new books, novels, speculative fiction, steampunk, Tresaulti
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On Birthdays (mine, specifically)
Tomorrow, I turn thirty-seven. I’m particularly excited about it. Now, I’m typically excited about birthdays – that prospect of newness, that feeling of standing at the cusp of limitless space, that sea of possibilities. (Except twenty-nine. Turning twenty-nine sucked immensely. … Continue reading
Resolution: No More Car Accidents. AND I MEAN IT!
I was nearly in another car wreck today. I had a carpool’s worth of kids in the back (I always have a carpoolsworth of kids) and we were negotiating our way down Ford Parkway, across the high span over the … Continue reading
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I swear, I could look at this all day
And one more thing to put in the file titled My Book Actually Exists! are these two little pages from the 2011 catalog at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Which means, currently, at the Barnhill House: more joyful squeals; … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, Childrens literature, Debut, fiction is my job, Little Brown, Middle Grade Novel, new books, SQUEEEEEE
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