Signing Books in Guitartown

        I’ll be signing copies of Janis Joplin Rise Up Singing, Such a Pretty Face and Silent Embrace, Perspectives on Birth and Adoption at Martha Merrell’s Bookstore in

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LitWorks makes Rock Stars of YA Writers

Front left to right: graphic novelist Raina Telegemeier, poet Ron Koertge, short story writer and biographer Ann Angel. Middle: humor novelist Julie Halpern, poet Ellen Hopkins. Back: Rigewood High School

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Passing the YALSA baton

I couldn’t help thinking this morning as I listened to the ALA awards about the excitement of being in the audience and hearing Janis Joplin Rise Up Singing named as

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Seriously, it is time to….

Seriously. If I’m going to have a blog site, I really should be posting regularly on it. But I’m not that good.  Still, if you really want to know what I’m

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One Writer’s Moral Compass

(Reprinted from The Pirate Tree) Best-selling middle grade and young adult author Lauren Myracle has a moral compass and she wants to pass that on through stories, usually stories of

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Thanks to all who voted for the Crystal Kite….

                                  Yesterday, Janis Joplin Rise Up Singing won the 2011 Crystal Kite Award, an award that was selected by my writing peers from Wisconsin/Minnesota/Iowa/Illinois/Nebraska/Indiana/Ohio.  I’m sure Janis herself  still has the

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Bye bye, spam

 So, just a note that I get so much spam and so my delete button is overused. So, for entertainment, here  are images of the black hole of spam as

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In honor of my friend the poet…

Yesterday, my friend and fellow writer JoAnn Early Macken celebrated teachers at the Brookfield, Wisconsin Barnes and Noble where we signed books. JoAnn has got a great and funny new book called

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Just thinking….

I’ve got just a moment and so I’m using this blog to list updates and random thoughts for fellow writers and readers A thought: I’m thinking a lot about writers and

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