You’ll appreciate this: today at work, I got hit by a flying lazy Susan. Yes, a wooden disc came bounding toward me, and I didn’t really see it until it had bounced off me onto the floor. Fortunately, lazy Susans … Continue reading
This is a brief post to let you all know that I’m still among the living. Life has been busy lately — full of blessings, but all-consuming. Will write more soon, but for now, two important things: First, here are … Continue reading
Here we are on the threshold of May, and I’m delighted to report that I have started writing again! I mean, actually writing — as in putting words onto the screen, not just thinking about it or feeling like it! The … Continue reading
We all have them, and we don’t stop and reflect on them nearly enough: those moments in life when you realize, “Whoa! I just received a treasure of an experience . . . I was just granted the gift of … Continue reading
If anyone missed the tremendous interview Patty Templeton did of me in the previous post, it is now also up on her library’s web site here. So, I’m back to Pittsburgh now after a little over a week in the … Continue reading
I know, I’m playing fast and loose with the term “week” — but we have here a week of posts related to The Star Shard, do we not? Be sure not to miss Day 7 of STAR SHARD WEEK on … Continue reading
Today on Emily Fiegenschuh’s blog, she tells the story of how she developed the cover image for the September 2008 issue of Cricket. She was given free rein by the art director to choose any material from the story that had … Continue reading
The week-long celebration of The Star Shard continues! Be sure to leap from this blog over to Emily Fiegenschuh’s (she’s the amazing artist who illustrated “The Star Shard” in its original form in Cricket Magazine — and wow, has she … Continue reading
Welcome back to the week-long celebration of The Star Shard — the novel just released and in stores now, and the story that inspired it, which ran as a series in Cricket Magazine from April 2008 – April 2009. This week … Continue reading
It’s Day 3 of our week-long blogfest celebrating The Star Shard — both its original incarnation as a serialized story in Cricket and as a just-released novel from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Ongoing notes related to this story are appearing throughout … Continue reading