Posted Dec 10 2012 in author, bullying, cyber-bullying, Kristen Stewart, parenting, Robert Pattinson, Send, social networking, suicide, YA
Ever since SEND was released last August, I’ve been talking about bullying and ways to help end it. Last week, I had the great pleasure of addressing my day job colleagues at a Lunch & Learn event. Every month, our Parenting Network schedules a different hour for parents looking to benefit from the experiences of […]
Read More...Posted May 31 2012 in author, bullying, cyber-bullying, fiction, Patty Blount, social networking, teens, YA
So… one of my Book Hungry friends – the READING MACHINE Karla Nellenbach, suggested I do an ARC Tour of SEND. What the $%&*!@ is an ARC Tour? Glad you asked. Here’s how it works. If you can’t wait to get your hands on the actual physical ARC of SEND pictured here, email me your […]
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 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 […]
Read More...Posted Feb 21 2012 in author, Patty Blount, social media, social networking
On Saturday, February 18th, I was at the South Huntington Public Library with my cohorts from the Long Island Romance Writers, where Jeannie Moon and I presented a session on how to get started with social networking. For anyone interested in more information about our session, visit Jeannie’s website, where she’s posted some additional links. […]
Read More...Posted Feb 16 2012 in author, eating disorders, Patty Blount, social networking, teens, YA
For my day job as a software technical writer, I’ve had to learn all about social networking – weigh the risks, know the benefits, tell the trends from the fads. It was this research that spurred my novel, SEND (August, 2012, Sourcebooks, Inc.), a story about a teen who exploits technology in the worst […]
Read More...Posted Oct 28 2011 in social networking
Every year, on the Friday before Halloween, my employer opens the building up for employees’ children for Safe Trick or Treating. We also have a day care center on-site, so most of the children are very little. Every year, we employees go just a little nuts decorating the cubes for the kids. I don’t know […]
Read More...Posted Oct 11 2011 in author, facebook, Patty Blount, social networking, YA
Facebook – to the fury of its millions of users – recently introduced a new user interface. Outcry was so loud, it actually made mainstream news. This got me thinking. What is it about Facebook that keeps us coming back? We could use Google+ or Twitter or other networks, but we keep coming back to […]
Read More...Posted Sep 24 2011 in bullying, cyber-bullying, Jamie Rodemeyer, Patty Blount, social networking, suicide, teens, violence
The following blog post was written by my oldest son, Rob, and pre-empts this weekend’s usual chocolate post because the subject is too important to trivialize. I warn you – this is not easy to read and as Rob’s mother, I promise you, it’s even harder to bear because each time I read it, I […]
Read More...Posted Aug 23 2011 in author, characterization, fiction, Patty Blount, social networking, Stereotypes in Fiction, teens, YA
Saw this in the NYT. The author says teen girls will read books about male and female characters while teen boys will NOT read books about females. True or false? Let’s talk.
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