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Angel Island Poetry
For National Poetry Month, I am posting poems from the walls of the barracks on Angel Island. For today… There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls. They are all cries of complaint...
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First Pages
I am starting my third book. It can be hard to go back to the beginning of the process and start a whole new mess to clean up, so I collected all the drafts of the first page of Fire Horse Girl that I...
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Unlocking Authentic Characters
Creating authentic characters can be one of the best building blocks for a story. If you create the right characters with plenty of potential conflict, it can help you build events that will be...
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Reading Group Discussion Questions
I’ve had several requests recently for discussion questions for THE FIRE HORSE GIRL. Below is what I came up with. If you have any you had fun discussion in a classroom or at a book club, leave a...
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YA Scavenger Hunt
It’s my favorite time of year! A time to find out about and win tons of books. Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a...
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Friday Fascinations
I love the word fascination. I feel like it’s on the right side of space between obsession and blasé. It promises more curiosity than knowledge, and taps into a deeper layer of concentration and focus....
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All in a Day’s Work
I’ve been thinking a lot about what creative work looks like. A lot of the work that goes into a creative project wouldn’t be called “work” by most. Not because it is easy or fun (although some of it...
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Fire Horse Girl Info and Inspiration
I could live my life on Pinterest. It caters to all my quirks in addition to my love of cork board. I created this Pinterest board to the YA Scavenger Hunt last month. I’ll post the link here in case...
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Why I Write Realistic Fiction
I was at the Montgomery Book Festival last week on a “Just Keeping it Real” panel with Christina Mandelski, Stasia Ward Kehoe, and Jessica Warman (all fabulous and so much fun to spend the day with)....
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YASH Spring 2016!
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! If you haven’t done the hunt before, you are in for a treat – exclusive content from each author, prizes, books. Each post also has a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues,...
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Reader Quizzes
It is almost summer, and you might have some time to kill. Here are some fun quizzes for readers to show off your inner book nerd. Harry Potter – Staff Match – Match the name to their job –...
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YASH – Red Team
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite...
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