Maybe I should have been a teacher the way my high school instructors claimed. I enjoyed teaching my on-line Man Talk class with the Low Country RWA chapter. And last week I loved being part of the guest faculty at the DePaul University Summer Writing Workshop. (As the new kid on the block I got the […]
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Friday was day 1, and my first time there as an instructor. The opening speaker was electric. Alex is the author of \”There Are No Children Here\” and other non-fiction works where he gives people\’s life stories. SOme of his excerpts had people crying in the seats.
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PULL\’s 2010 Reader\’s Choice award for it\’s first place in Young Adult books arrived in the mail today. I understand why it is affectionately known as a tombstone. Since I could not be in both New York for the RWA conference where the award was given, and in beautiful, if muggy, New Orleans for ALA and a
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Early in June I went to Chicago\’s Printer\’s Row book festival, an annual weekend celebration of the printed word. I shared a booth with Barbara\’s Bookstore – totally coincidental – and the Chicago Writer\’s Association. I spoke to a family about PULL, and as I talked to the parents their son picked up a copy and started
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