And the 5th test- Will it be FUN? Today, after one of 2013\’s few (and worst) snowstorms, I was up at six am and out the door into a road IDOT had not yet cleared because of a commitment I made months ago. It seemed safe back then to schedule my visit to talk to the […]
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Today we are interviewing Barney, the younger sister of David Albacore, and Malik Kaplan\’s not-quite girlfriend in Being God the sequel to the award-winning Pull. Who are you and what is your story? Barnetta Murhaselt. Barney to the people who care about me. The girl who is six-feet tall with two left hands, so no
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The Pirate Tree, a group of Children\’s and YA bloggers, selected Being God to review for Valentine\’s Day. The reviewer, J. L. Powers, admits the book is \”an unlikely choice for Valentine’s Day but a good one nonetheless.\” The review says: I would hate to see this complex novel reduced to any of the “issues”
Today is National Book Giving Day. I am donating four copies of each of my books to kids in a juvenile detention center. Downloadable poster IBGD – Can you find kid in need of books today?
Come join my mini-blog tour celebrating the Feb 1 release of Being God. Follow me around the blog-o-sphere Read an excerpt from Being God at Dragon My Feet: http://dragonmyfeet.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/excerpt-from-being-god-a-contemporary-ya-novel-by-b-a-binns/ Get up close and personal when Being God\’s protagonist, Malik Kaplan, is interviewed at Pat bertram Introduces… http://patbertram.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/malik-kaplan-lead-character-in-being-god-a-contemporary-ya-novel-by-b-a-binns/ Find out more about the process that created
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Today I put together the speech I will be giving at the 2013 Virginia Hamilton convention in April. I will be covering ways parents, librarians, schools and concerned citizens can enhance collections to make them more diverse, and why that is a good things. Just for fun, I popped my speech into a neat tool
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Being God comes out Feb 1. The book represents my commitment to writing quality books designed to attract both eager and the reluctant teen readers. Especially the kids known as reluctant readers. I truly believe that most kids who are reluctant do not deserve that name. They are just kids who have not yet found the
Last week I read a post on the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog about the need to make books more accessible to people with visual impairments. The post featured a disheartening description of what one reader once had to do to get a book in a format he could read. Thank heavens for eReaders that can
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I belong to the group of authors who happen to have two X chromosomes. I am also a researcher at heart, so when I decided to write, especially from the male POV, I began by doing research on the subject of men. Yes, I had a legitimate excuse to stalk males!! The result was Pull
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Sorry about not posting for a week. I attended the Indiana Library Federation (ILF) meeting in Indianapolis where I spoke on Multicultural Collections, then came home to prepare for Thanksgiving. Let me just give thanks that Thanksgiving is over. In this post I will share with you some information from that ILF presentations. Of course, I shared
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