Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Writing About What One Knows

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This afternoon I read an e-mail on one of my lists from a budding writer of children's books. She mentioned that she had always heard th...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

Some things to keep in mind

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I recently posted an ad on an online group looking to hire authors for a 16-book series. Of course I received responses for many more than I...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Cats and Freelancing

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I belong to several freelance editing and writing lists. I must admit that I am amazed at the number of freelancers who work with a cat by t...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Now I Know

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I've often read that writing is a solitary profession. That's fine with me; I'm not very sociable when you get right down to it....
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Why Me? But not in a bad way

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I've finished the book about the Boston Tea Party (well, I still have a couple of revisions to make)! Yee Haw! The publisher offered me ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Why I got into this field in the first place

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From my early childhood I have loved old movies. It never mattered to me if they were in black and white or if the subject was dated. There ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Review: Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh

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Team Moon purports to tell the story of "How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon." It does that, but I never truly felt dr...

Review: Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine

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I'm planning to use this book myself! Some of the exercises are directed toward younger writers, but hey, I can live with that. I wish I...

Review: One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals by Noyes

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I love animals, so I looked forward to reading this book. The cover says the book is about the human-animal bond in myth, history, science, ...