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Magic for Sale and a Giveaway Winner!
So just came back from Orlando, Florida, with lovely family. My favorite ride in all the parks: Harry Potter’s broomstick journey through Hogwarts and beyond. I kept thinking how amazing it is that a single mortal’s imagination resulted in something so tangible.. a cobblestone street for millions of people to walk along . . . bottles of pumpkin…
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The Grace Lin Giveaway Winner
Thanks again to everyone who participated in last week’s giveaway. I know some of you wanted to win so very badly — in retrospect, I should have gotten more copies. Darn! To make the winner’s selection as random as could be, I had my daughter pull a name from a box: And the winner is .…
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Changing Your Fortune: a Grace Lin giveaway
So it’s been a week since the New Jersey SCBWI conference. Already? Well, I am still all fired up and have a busy writing week to show for it! (Many revising hours — very little human contact — or even virtual activity — not as many revised chapters as I’d like for all that work, but that’s another…
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Back from the New Jersey SCBWI Summer Comference 2011: we’re all in this together!
Just back from Princeton, New Jersey, and let me tell you — wow, what a conference! A group of super-talented writers, fun, approachable published authors, passionate agents and savvy editors took over a Wyndham resort for the weekend, for yet another massive exchange of ideas, knowledge and creativity, all in the name of writing for young…
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Winners of the BFF giveaway, a too-short long weekend, and 13 days left of school…Heeeelp!
Hi everyone! First, thanks for participating in last week’s BFF giveaway. The signed copy of Joyce Moyer Hostetter’s http://joycemoyerhostetter.blogspot.com/ first book “Best Friends Forever” is going out to Janet Stoltzfus and Clara Gillow Clark claragillowclark.blogspot.com . I will be e-mailing you ladies shortly for your addresses! In other news, did any of you feel like the Memorial Day weekend…
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I did it!
So, naturally my house is a wild, dirty mess, and look at the shoes in my closet: But I did it. I did it!!! One year after I thought I was really done, I completed another draft of the historical fantasy novel manuscript I had been working on for years. I sent it to my agent about two…
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To Freedom!
So this is Passover week. Tonight, we’re going over to my mom’s house to celebrate the freedom of the Jewish people from the Egyptian pharaoh’s slavery. In remembrance of the struggles of the Jews who had to leave their homes quickly — with no time to leave the dough for the bread to rise — we Jews must not…
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Are we there yet, story?
So, here is another writing update for you. I basically have most of the manuscript back from my two loyal amazing friends who gave up such huge chunks of their time for me in the midst of their incredibly busy lives. So the verdict is — incredibly — they love it, with a few “buts,” of…
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To love and revision: a post-Valentine’s Day post
This Valentine’s Day I took a walk with my dog Lucky, something I do every day, but this time, inhaling the miracle of spring-like air. I did something else, too, this Valentine’s Day. Something pretty cool. I . . . finally . . . (deep breath in) . . . FINISHED THE REVISION!!! Yippeeeeeeeee! Well, at least…
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Books are Our BFFs: A Giveaway
To continue with last month’s friendship theme, I’d like to offer you a little giveaway to celebrate books and friendship! You see, starting this blog has been one of the very best things I have ever done. Through it I have met — physically and virtually — some amazing award-winning, up-and-coming, super-talented authors who, most…
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