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YASH Fall 2015 Contest!
[Update: The Fall 2015 Scavenger Hunt has ended. Links to the contest are disabled, though I have maintained links to authors’ websites so you can still get to know them and their work. Winners of the...
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The Fall 2015 Young Adult Scavenger Hunt Wrap Up
The past week has been a busy time for my blog, with my participation in the the 2015 Young Adult Scavenger Hunt as part of Team Red. While we wait for the announcement of the team’s Grand Prize...
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Killing Your Darlings, and Bringing Them Back to Life
My bonus content for the recent Young Adult Scavenger Hunt was a deleted scene from Surviving Santiago. It happened to be a scene I especially loved, in large part because my daughter, who was 16 at...
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Coming to a Conference Near You! (If You’re in the Twin Cities, That Is)
I’m scrambling to finish preparations for the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) conference, followed by the ALAN (Assembly of Literature for Adolescents of NCTE) workshop in Minneapolis...
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A Book I’m Thankful For + Giveaway
A few months ago I joined a Facebook group of authors interested in working together to read each others’ manuscripts and to promote each others’ books. The promotional arm morphed into a group called...
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Last Week’s News: Surviving Santiago as a Cautionary Tale
Let’s start with the good news. I like good news. (Isn’t that something the bad guy says in Surviving Santiago — but in a deleted scene?) I finished PiBoIdMo! Thirty picture book ideas in 30 days....
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Good News for Surviving Santiago!
Celebrating Surviving Santiago’s launch at Bluestockings with author and activist Zetta Elliott. I usually don’t devote space on my blog or other social media to trumpeting recognition that my books...
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I’m Going to AWP!
Yesterday was the day the Association of Writers and Writing Programs announced the accepted panels for the 2017 conference in Washington, DC. After two years in a row that the AWP conference took...
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Know Your History
Regular visitors to this site may notice a new item on the menu bar for Translations. This new page lists the published and forthcoming children’s books that I’ve translated from Portuguese to English....
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A New Agent!
Readers who are familiar with the publishing industry already know this, but many of my blog’s readers are not familiar with the process of making books (making sausage is clean and fun by comparison)...
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Announcing Work in Progress Awards!
Now that it’s March, the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) once again announces its submission period for Work-in-Progress Awards. Last year was the first for the Translation...
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Agent Revisions, Editor Revisions
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been in the revision cave for the past month or so. Typically, the first round of revisions for a published book are what’s called a developmental edit. It’s a...
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In July 2015, when Surviving Santiago and my translation of A World in a Second came out, the award-winning website YARN: Young Adult Review Network asked me to write an essay about how a teacher...
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