Low-Hanging Fruit
A student sent me this quote from Robert Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream: “When...
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Author: Anne Ursu
Joining the Frey
My Twitter feed exploded on Friday. I was traveling and couldn’t quite piece it together. James Frey. YA book packaging. A million little suckers. It turns out that NY Magazine has published James Frey’s Fiction...
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My little boy was expelled from preschool for biting last week. Apparently that sort of thing still happens even in this post-Twilight age. You’d think people would be more understanding. This all poses an interesting challenge...
Read MoreAlways Listen to Your Publicist.
I had the pleasure of attending Kidlit Con in Minneapolis this weekend. It’s the annual conference of the Kidlitosphere, the people who blog about kids’ books. The conference was also useful for writers; there were...
Read MoreWorth a Thousand Words
A couple weeks ago, the New York Times published an article saying the picture book was fading. Sales are down, orders are down–and while the article cites the down economy, it suggests that some of the lag is due to...
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