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Monday Needs a Poem

Why writers need to shut down their computers and go away: Ode to a Book (1) (excerpted) When I close a book I open life. I hear faltering cries among harbours. … Book, let me go. I won’t go clothed in...

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In Which I Greatly Admire Rick Riordan

This quote below from wildly crazily best-selling author Rick Riordan is ALL KINDS OF RIGHT. (His newest book, House of Hades, is the latest in the gods of Olympus/Percy Jackson series. If by some odd...

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WINTERKILL, or The Book I Didn’t Write But am Proud of Anyway

Almost four years ago, in October 2010, I exchanged emails with another writer I found on the Absolute Write writers forums. For those who don’t know, the Absolute Write online forums are a huge and...

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I’m Tagged in a Blog Hop (Or, “You throw one kidney bean in one purse, and...

As previously mentioned, I don’t blog regularly anymore. (Actually that implies I used to blog regularly, instead of at rather more frequent random intervals, but allow me the rose-colored glasses of...

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Yom Kippur at the Beach

Some lessons learned from a day at the beach I’m not what you’d call a practicing Jew, what with being married to a lapsed Catholic and considering bacon and lobster two of the world’s best foods. But...

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A New Book! This Would Make A Good Story Someday is coming

It’s that exciting and sometimes slightly nausea-inducing moment when I realize that something that I made up while sitting alone in my office in cat-hair-covered yoga pants is actually going to go out...

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2018: Passion and Grace

Several writer-friends have referenced finding a Word of the Year; a word that somehow speaks to them and that they use as a keystone to the new year. They choose words like Growth, Embrace, Center;...

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Above All Else and The World We’re In

Above All Else, my next book, my first novel for teens, comes out three weeks from today, on October 13th! And because I can’t get out and go to all the wonderful bookstores I usually go to, I am...

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Exclusive Art for Above All Else, a Virtual Book Event, and How Magic Happens

The down side of a pandemic is…well…everything. But the only good side is that, when all book events turn virtual, geography doesn’t really matter anymore! And that means I get to do my launch party...

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A Short Post to Manage Expectations

WELCOME! Hi! If you’re here on my website, clicking through my blog, you might be interested in books for kids and teens. Or you might have googled something and wound up here by accident. Or you might...

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