Author: Anne Ursu

Books in the Woods

I apologize for my quiet–I’ve been traveling and awash in manuscripts. I haven’t even watched the last three weeks of Project Runway, which should tell you how bad things have gotten. But I’m sitting in a...

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At Home with the Amazonians

I’ve just returned from a week in New York, and I’m rather amazed at the number of things I let slide while there. I need to catch up, desperately–so naturally I’m perusing the Internet.I don’t know...

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The Parent Trap

I’d be interested to know what you think of this article from the New York Times Book Review. Julie Just, the children’s book editor of the Times, writes about parents and YA lit:Afflicted by anomie, sitting down to...

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Mysterious Process, II

Lisa writes about process below. I’ve always told people your process should be whatever works for you, and Lisa’s right to specify further–your process is whatever works for you for this book.I used to write...

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Raging Against the Penguins

I’m not the world’s biggest David Mamet fan–and I probably don’t want to meet the person who is. But this memo that surfaced–an exhortation to the writers of CBS’s now defunct The...

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