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How to make an impression on a panel
So I just got back from the children’s book panel at Changing Hands. There was a nice crowd, good questions, and fun people on the panel with me. Afterward as I sat chatting with people and signing books I felt…Event tonight at Changing Hands
Okay, granted, I know I should have posted this announcement um, sooner than four hours before the event. But if you happen to be in the Tempe, Arizona area and you want to write for kids, here’s a free event…I suspected as much
I’ve always said that anything would taste good if you covered it in chocolate first. Seriously, I bet chocolate covered shoe laces would be yummy–especially if you added some carmel. I had a friend come and visit me from Russia.…My Wonderful editor
Okay, I have to give major kudos to the bow-tied one. In fact, I take back all of those things I’m going to say about him during my next book’s revisions. He asked me a long time ago who I…Pictures from my daughters that make me nervous
Lately I’ve been getting pictures from my daughters that make me . . .well, just a tad bit concerned. Here are a series of drawings that my youngest daughter drew in comic book like procession. As you can tell they…STDev and book update
I just had to let you all know–because I know you’re awaiting the news as eagerly as you’re awaiting the next Twilight book–that I got an A- on my STDev test, which gave me an A- in the class. I…On the other hand, maybe college isn’t such a good idea
Here is a confession: I never finished college. I meant to, but after my husband graduated and we moved to Arizona, it just became one of those goals that went on the back burner. I always said I’d go back…The evil new computer
We got a new computer. It was time. The last one was so old and slow that the other computers just laughed at it whenever it went on the Internet. The problem is that the new computer now has Vista.…Starting a new book
My editor, AKA the bow-tied one, asked me to send him plot ideas for my next novel. “They don’t have to be fully developed,” he told me. “Just any ideas that you think are good.” So I sent him several…Haiku, Low-ku, and chocolate
I forgot to add one thing about my class at BYU, and that was the Low-ku contest. (Haiku that is low on the poetic scale.) I thought Mike in my class wrote the best Low-ku poem. He was simply robbed…My fab Utah trip part two and the famous guy
Janette Rallison and some wonderful, marvelous, incredibly talented writers. After hanging out with Shannon Hale and her fab entourage, I went to BYU to teach at an annual writer’s workshop. And really, I don’t know when I’ve had so much…my fab trip to Utah–Shannon Hale
I came to Utah to teach at the BYU writing conference, but first I went to ShannonCon. (Shannon Hale kept on insisting that she didn’t name the gathering ShannonCon–her fans did, but we know better. As soon as I become…Stay In The Loop
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