We writers sometimes talk about “pellets”–little rewards that keep us–like rats–happily running around our writerly treadmills. A good review is a pellet. An email from an enthusiastic reader is a pellet. Last week, I got something so far beyond a pellet that one of my writing buddies called it an “asteroid.” And indeed, it is [...]
I spent last week at a writing workshop on an island in Ohio. Great friends, great conversation, lots of long walks and long talks. Also it rained almost the whole time. At the beginning of the week we looked like the top picture: And at the end of the week we looked like the bottom [...]
Today’s happy news is that The Magic Thief is on the state book award list in New Jersey, which is its twelfth state list! If you live in Illinois and are a kid in grades K-8, you can enter a student video contest and win a trip to a book conference! Details are here.