Robin Brande, Author, Dog Lover, Coffee and Chocolate Addict. Living an Interesting Life.

Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

For writers, readers, and independent thinkers–book talk for readers and writers, life chats when we need them, writers’ motivational articles, secret behind-the-scenes stories from the publishing trenches, and more.

The fifty pounds Meg Cabot & I have in common

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Wow, you never know what you’re going to find out about an author–especially one you admire as much as I do Meg Cabot. Those of you who have followed this blog long enough know that I’m a huge fan of both her books and her blog.
And now, in one of those strange loop-de-loops, I [...]

Take that, book snobs

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. Reading is reading. I don’t care if it’s comic books, the newspaper, science fiction, romance novels, chemistry textbooks, sports magazines–whatever. If someone loves to read anything, then that’s the beginning of a [...]

Why some people need to write the funny

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

I was really amazed by this confessional by Meg Cabot. I don’t know about you, but I really appreciate her honesty.
And since I’m one of the YA authors who believes that funny fiction is important–for many of the reasons she pointed out–you know I loved what she had to say about that.
What [...]

Meg Cabot on how to get an agent

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Because I’m too busy/harried/unimaginative (for blogging, that is–saving it all for the book I’m working on now!), about the best I can manage these days is to point you to other people’s blogs when I think they have something to say you might be interested in.
I really liked what Meg Cabot had to say about [...]


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