While I’m writing…..

      I listen to music while I’m writing, revising and editing. So this year is ending with work on Things I’ll Never Say, Short Stories About Our Secret Selves (Candlewick,

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Where have I been lately?

  Somehow, this header seems like it should be a literal question. But I’m here and I’ve been right here for the last few months. I just haven’t been keeping

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The puzzle of writing a novel

            Guess what I’ll be teaching this fall. Yep. You guessed it. Novel writing. This isn’t my first experience with novel writing. I’ve got six

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Upcoming events….

  Oct. 18-20, 2013 SCBWI-WI Fall Conference.   Madison at Bishop O’Connor Center. Six National Speakers: Adah Nuchi (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Julie Ham (Charlesbridge), Ben Rosenthal (Enslow), Author/Illustrator -Judith Byron Schachner,

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Getting ready to write with survivors

    I’ve been reading like a madwoman and researching poetry, writing to heal and memoir in preparation to work with survivors of domestic violence and sexual exploitation. The workshops won’t begin

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