“Finding Reiner #7: Shrapnel and Bones”  

Fellow Hen&ink Literary mate and young adult novelist Hannah Goodman (bio below) tagged me for a writer’s blog tour that asks writers four questions about the writing process. I’ll blab about why I’ve been digging in the ground in rural Poland and then tap two talented colleagues who’ll carry the blog forward: Cyndi Briggs and […]

Follow my adventure in Germany and Poland to find a missing WWII soldier:   http://www.travelgumbo.com/blog/finding-reiner-disaster-to-discovery

I’d love to visit your school with my new book A Catfish Tale: A Bayou retelling of the Fisherman & His Wife. Let me read to your students or library groups! And we’ll talk folktales and fables. Maybe even make up one of our own. Or, have a taste for old family history? I’ll lead […]

Need to find a time to return to Europe to seek answers about Reiner Niemann’s death in January 1945, the beginning of the end of WWII in the Radom district of Poland.

Limited Space Available for Conference Special Address by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Register Now to Secure Your Space His Holiness the Dalai Lama, famed Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Richard J. Davidson, and world-renowned speaker and author Margaret Wheatley are the featured speakers at “Resilience.” Social Workers and Louisiana Professional Counselors can receive 8.25 […]

Now’s the time to book your tickets to hear the Dalai Lama speak in New Orleans—May 16 – 18. Attend the conference on Resilience—with the Dalai Lama, Dr. Richard Davidson, and Margaret Wheatley http://www.dalailamanola.com/

The Dalai Lama in New Orleans

Fantastic trip to Poland and Germany to find the original mass grave of a lost soldier. Now to write my new YA nonfiction account of a soldier on the Russian Front on WWII.

  2012 had me deep in WWII archives and then sent me to Poland in July to find out what happened to a German soldier who disappeared on the Russian Front in January 1945. I’m back in Poland now, still looking for traces of that soldier. The wintry weather in Warsaw does not look good [...]

One novel in submission. Another brewing on my computer. What will you be reading in 2012? Sci-fi? Romance? Mystery? Young adult?

I’m one of those writers who has to slink away from the world to write a book, so I’ve been mostly out of touch. Follow my tweets at @whitneystewart2 or @MindfulNewOrlns.

Let the world watch Burma’s news of Aung San Suu Kyi’s release:

Come on out and say hi— Signing Marshall, The Sea Dog Saturday 9/11/10 10am – 11:30 am

http://rcrdlbl.com/2010/09/02/download_christoph_andersson_tuxedo Christoph Andersson Check out my son’s upbeat tune, “Tuxedo.”

Been away all summer for a taste of something fresh. But now I’m back to my desk to celebrate a new Marshall book, a revised meditation ebook—soon to be found on the new ebook publishing site BooksBNimble.com, and the completion of a new picture book set in the Louisiana bayou. Check out the new middle-grade Marshall [...]

CHRISTOPH ANDERSSON’S GREAT REMIX http://remix.maddecent.com/entries?entry=108zeb93c9

http://deftjams.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/introducing-christoph-andersson/ And vote for his remix of a Yeahsayer song: http://remix.maddecent.com/entry?entry=108zeb93c9-FB

Please help Tibetans recover from the devastating April 2010 earthquake. The number of victims has been under-reported. Donate to the Social and Economic Development Fund, an organization I know and trust. http://theseacfund.org/

http://vimeo.com/10755694 This was my first time narrating a book for film.

Great school, that Louisville Collegiate. Creative kids. Taught everything from Tibetan Buddhist culture to how to set up a breeches buoy rescue, with a little Lincoln lore and the Emancipation Proclamation in between. On my free afternoon, I took a trip down to the Muhammad Ali center—a must-see for all Louisville visitors. Think I may have [...]

My newest book, a middle-grade version of the rescue story of the W.F. Marshall off the coast of Nantucket in 1877, is set to come out in June. It is full of little details that were not in my early picture book on Marshall. Learn what happened to Marshall, the Newfoundland, after he was shipwrecked. [...]

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The fog covers the sea. The cold wind hits you in the face like splintered ice. And your ship hits sand and grinds to a halt. The masts groan with the strain. Water swamps the deck, threatening to wash your sailors overboard. Slowly your ship heaves sideways, and you and your thirteen crew members are at risk of freezing to death if nobody sees the wreck.

And it’s 1877. You have no radio or cell phone. No Coast Guard helicopter fly overhead and send down a ladder. The water is too rough and you are too far out to swim to shore. And you have a woman, a baby, and an enormous Newfoundland dog below deck.

What do you do?