I’m very excited to be participating in the cover reveal for The Summer After You and Me by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, a blogging buddy of mine at YA Outside the Lines. Here’s the scoop: Sunbathing, surfing, eating funnel cake on the boardwalk—Lucy loves living on the Jersey Shore. For her, it’s not just the perfect…
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Spelling “Tuesday”
Just in case it makes any difference, Stephen and I have been reading aloud to our daughter while she’s in the womb. Our most recent selections are the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, which I have read many times but not since I wrote a paper on…
World War I and the Power of Story
I planned to write quite a different blog post, but then the Internet reminded me that today is the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I, so that other post will have to wait. All I can really remember about how I came to my interest in World War I is that sometime…
Working Through A Monumentally Bad Day
A few weeks ago I had a Monumentally Bad Day, and today I’m having another one, though this one is not quite as bad. My Monumentally Bad Days usually start with lack of sleep the night before, which is not necessarily a pregnancy symptom—I’ve struggled with insomnia my entire adult life. Right now, everything is…
More From the Writing Process Blog Tour
You can read my contribution to the Writing Process Blog Tour here. This week, check out responses from the awesome writers I tagged: Mary Claire Marck and Bev Patt Neither of these writers is an old man with a beard, but I love a good woodcut. If you are a writer,…
Writing Process Blog Tour
The Writing Process Blog Tour has been making the rounds of the writing blogosphere, and I was tagged last week by the fabulous Maryanne Fantalis of A Writer’s Notepad. Maryanne and I met through our shared love for historical fiction over at Corsets, Cutlasses, and Candlesticks. Though we’ve never met in person, I know through…
What I’m Reading Now: June 2014 Edition
This has been a slow fiction reading month for me, what with hectic summer schedules at my house (husband out of town, mom in town, trying to catch friends as they come and go). I’ve also been doing a lot of online and print periodical reading. (I have new subscriptions to Booklist! And Horn Book!…
Some Reflections on Pregnancy, Touch, and Consent
Inspired by #YesAllWomen, the recent killings in California, the idea that even small children can understand the concept of consent, and my own recent experience as a woman who is pregnant (note the person-first language there), I feel compelled to write about the issues I have with the treatment of the bodies of women who…
Triplets!!!
Ha, made you look. I am such a stinker like that. Still just one human baby arriving in September. Anyway. Back to my triplets. (And as O. Henry says in “The Gift of the Magi,” “Forget the hashed metaphor.”) I’ve had three book projects going into new stages of production at the end of May/beginning…
Thursday Thoughts: Coming Soon
If you have superpowers of observation, you’ve noticed that the url for this site has changed. That’s because I came to a big decision yesterday about my online presence and because my husband, who is my webmaster extraordinaire, can’t stand not to act on a new idea immediately. I had big deadlines last week, and…