I am back from New Orleans, and I’m going to tell you the worst-kept secret in children’s publishing: librarians know how to have them a good time!
After a couple years of working more or less quietly away and staying behind the curtain, it was…
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Every so often, when the adult literary world runs out of feuds and controversies and awards outrage to write about, the focus turns to YA fiction and how it’s killing/saving/corrupting/enlightening the youth because it’s too dark/light/intense/fluffy/tragic/ridiculous, and the parents are clueless/too perfect/dead/werewolves/overinvolved/underinvolved. A few…
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Sorry for the blog-neglect, friends. There’s a lot going on! Exciting times. Uncertain times. Which is part of what makes them exciting. It should be a fairly newsy year. Meeaaaanwhile:
- Comrade Keith Dixon has a new cookbook/memoir out, called Cooking for Gracie: The Making…
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I said I was cashing out on talking about difficult topics like politics and religion on Twitter, etc. Then I read the paper this morning (which I need to stop doing – news-reading should happen after writing, otherwise my brain is much too…
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