I never really thought about turkeys too much, not until one almost killed me. Before that, I liked eating turkey…
Category: The Princesses of Iowa
I wouldn’t let my mother read my book. I let my friends read it from draft one. A couple of…
To continue the, ahem, tradition that Debs Joanne and Erika started by talking about their writing traditions — or, in…
Writer Mark Baechtel once told me, “If you’re not scared when you’re writing, you’re not working hard enough. You must be…
I wrote the first draft of The Princesses of Iowa in a very methodical way: I made a chapter-by-chapter outline,…
Since the children’s book world has been the center of a crazy story this week, I thought I would talk…
You know the end of When Harry Met Sally, when they say, “We were friends for a long time. And…
Dear Book Banners, First of all, let me thank you for all the hard work you do. Without you, we…
School shopping was kind of a big deal in my family. A few weeks before school started, my mother would…
Literature – particularly children’s and young adult literature – is hard on parents. If you’re a parent in a YA…