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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
YES! Who doesn’t? Don’t we all want to “have” to finally read through that stack of books by our bedside?…
Posted in Reading | No Comments » | Tagged: 48 Hour Book Challenge, Books, Mother Reader, Reading
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
I love this post to pieces. I’m going to invite it out for good Mexican food, then bring it…
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
I’m going to try an experiment. And if you have an opinion about it before I start, I’d love to…
Posted in Dogs, Reading, Writing | 2 Comments » | Tagged: Audio Books, Books, Publishing, Reading, Writing
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Okay, you have to act fast on this. My new novel DOGGIRL is available FOR FREE through tomorrow. So…
Posted in Dogs, Reading | 3 Comments » | Tagged: animals, Books, border collie, dachshund, dog books, dog stories, dog training, dogs, ebooks, Free Book, Free eBook, Free fiction, girl and dog stories, great pyrenees, high school, performing arts, pets, Reading, teen fiction, Teen Novels, Theater, Young Adult Authors, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Literature, Young Adult Novels
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
How excited am I? SOOOOOO EXCITED! DOGGIRL is finally here, which means I can show some of it to…
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Why does everything take so long? Um . . . maybe because I put it off forever?
But today my…
Posted in Reading, Writing | No Comments » | Tagged: Acting, Acting Memoirs, And Furthermore, Aspiring Writers, Beginning Writers, Book Recommendation, Books, Books on Acting, Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, Drawing Out the Dragons, Here There Be Dragons, high school, Inspirational Books, James A. Owen, Judi Dench, Laura Hillenbrand, Middle School, On Writing, Publishing, Reading, Reading Recommendation, Stephen King, Theater, Theatre, Unbroken, Writing, Writing Books
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I’ve written posts before on how much I hate book snobs–especially when it comes to children’s and teens’ reading choices.…
Posted in Reading | 22 Comments » | Tagged: Book Snobbery, Book Snobs, Books, Books in Schools, Love of Reading, Meg Cabot, Reading
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Actually, so much of the writing life is fun–researching topics you’re interested in; spending day after day in Fictionland while…
Posted in Writing | 8 Comments » | Tagged: Audio Books, Books, Publishing, Writing
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Because Mother Reader is slightly insane–I mean, dedicated–every year she hosts a 48 Hour Book Challenge, the goal of…
Posted in Reading | 1 Comment » | Tagged: 49 Hour Book Challenge, Books, Marathon Reading, Mother Reader, Reading
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Even though I don’t have the cover of my new novel FAT CAT to post yet (wah!), I think it…
Posted in Writing | 38 Comments » | Tagged: Books, Fiction, Novels, Publishing, Writing, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Novels
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