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It’s really a book for writers
I need to blog on my trip to Utah, and I will, really. But when I got home from my trip yesterday, my youngest daughter handed me a stack of picture books she’d checked out of the library. I read…
Continue ReadingFashion and the forgetful author
I’m up in Utah right now doing school visits and getting ready to present at the LDStorymakers writing conference. I love conferences because I get to see all of my cool writing friends. Also, the bow-tied editor himself is coming…
Continue ReadingThe Marketing Department Strikes Again
Not long ago the bow-tied one sent me some sample covers for When You Wish Upon a TV Star to see which one I liked best. Here they are: I emailed him back that I really loved the one of…
Continue ReadingHappy Grammar Day!
Okay, technically I’m late–National Grammar Day was actually March 4th. So my apologies for not getting all of those “Wishing you a blessed Grammar Day” cards out in the mail in time. I’m way behind on everything. This is what…
Continue ReadingGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Here is a cute picture of my daughter and her boyfriend. He was just up visiting her and she was quite impressed with his culinary prowess. He made her a dinner of Salmon and Caesar salad. He even made the…
Continue Reading100,000 words and counting
It’s been another interesting writing day. As it turns out I should have paid better attention in history class, or chemistry class, or both. I’m to the point in my novel where I need to write about explosives that would…
Continue ReadingWhy I shouldn’t stay up so late.
I’m a night person, I really am. (You may have already noticed that many of my blogs are posted during hours when all normal human beings are asleep.) If I’m behind on a manuscript . . . which lately has…
Continue ReadingWishing it was over
I just got the third set of revision notes on what used to be called “Last Wish” and is now being called “When You Wish Upon a TV Star” You’d think after doing hefty revisions twice already that at this…
Continue ReadingWhy Authors Shouldn’t Use Pop References
You can’t help but feel bad for Britney Spears. We’ve been watching her self destruct for over a year now. Is there anything she hasn’t done? Any low the paparazzi haven’t captured? Even her trip to the hospital–how many days…
Continue ReadingLook, I’m a real writer
On some days I don’t feel like a real writer. I know, it’s weird, but I’ve heard other writers say the same thing. I doubt plumbers ever feel this way. Or Doctors. I mean you never walk into an examining…
Continue ReadingWhat I did on the MLK holiday
My 11 year old daughter loves to draw and this is her portrait of our family on Monday. Yeah, that pretty well sums it up. Somehow I’m always behind on whatever novel I’m working on, and so I end up…
Continue ReadingI am temporarily cool
Okay, so the Newbery committee passed on me again. (What were they thinking?) All is not lost though because for the very first Whitney Awards ever, one of my books: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend is a…
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