Posted Mar 30 2012 in author, bullying, cyber-bullying, Dan's Blog, fiction, Patty Blount, Send, suicide, teens, violence, YA
SQUEE! ! ! ! Please forgive the abuse of exclamation points but SEND HAS A COVER AND IT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING EVAH! Behold… Do you love it?!? Tell me you love it. Lie to me if you must. It’s really happening. My precious is A REAL BOOK! *happy dance* I um… *coughs*… went a […]
Read More...Posted Mar 29 2012 in fiction, Lucky Seven, social networking
Claire Legrand, author of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls (August, 2012), started a game of author tag. Here are the rules: If you’re tagged, you have to do the following: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript Go to line 7 Copy down the next seven lines/sentences as they are […]
Read More...Posted Mar 29 2012 in Book Hungry, dystopian, Hunger Games, Miscellany, movie, teens, violence
My Bookhungry book club formed over a year ago around The Hunger Games book – in fact, it was our first book review. So, what better tribute (ha ha, pun intended) than to review the movie? Warning! Spoilers ahead. We saw the movie during its opening weekend and discussed it. I took my son even […]
Read More...Posted Mar 9 2012 in author, Compelling Stories, Patty Blount, social networking, Twitter
In the wake of the Franzen frenzy about Twitter this week, I thought I’d write this homage. Out of all the social networks, Twitter has a special place in my heart for helping me achieve a life-long dream. Twitter made me an author. Here’s how it happened. Back in 2009, a new boss encouraged us […]
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