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Over the course of the past several days, my Twitter feed has bloomed with posts from the good people of Abrams & Chronicle. Chosen lines from
One Thing Stolen, posterized. Words of encouragement and hope. It's been a quiet, miraculous thing. This sense this UK publishing arm has provided of a story fully seen.
And so, when Abrams & Chronicle (through Lara Starr) asked me to write about how my travels have influenced my stories, I was more than happy to comply, writing the story that appears today,
here. Please take some time to review the many lovely posts on A&C blog. I promise you good reads and eats.
But while I'm at this, I'd like to thank my dear friend Ed Goldberg, who has been such an exquisite companion through my many seasons as a writer of books for young adult readers. I was standing in the lobby of an Atlantic City hotel years and books ago when I first received an Ed email. I was standing in Books of Wonder when I first (a surprise) met him. And here he is again, reading
One Thing Stolen and offering
his support in his beautiful blog, Two Heads Together. I am forever grateful.
I began blogging some nine books ago, right around the release date of
Undercover. This was my most autobiographical young adult story, a tale vaguely based on my own days as a striving high school poet with a love for ice, float, and speed, and with an English teacher who took note of all I was afraid to be.
Today my friend Ed Goldberg (of the blog Two Heads Together, among other things) sent word that
Undercover has been remembered by Jennifer Miskec and Katy J. Stein in a February 2013 VOYA article called "Classics Outside of the Classroom."
From the article:
Over the last decade, young adult literature has seen a minor boom in the publication of adaptations of classic literature. What can be an English teacher's best friends, books like Sharon Draper's version of Romeo and Juliet (Romiette and Julio) makes Verona a little more imaginable; Beth Kephart's Undercover, Cyrano d'Bergerac recast with fifteen-year-old Elisa, makes Cyrano just like one of us. These adaptations can be a useful bridge between the teen reader's own life and the privileged space of classic literature, because authors modernize—and sometimes even sanitize—the famous stories, making them both familiar and educational for a new audience.
The piece goes on to describe a number of YA literary adaptations, including a beautiful long paragraph dedicated to
Undercover.I am indebted to the authors. I am indebted, as well, to Ed. I had always hoped that classroom teachers would discover
Undercover and make it part of a broader curricula.
Thank you.
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... featuring the words of authors I love, the kindness of bloggers, my photographs of southern Spain, and my husband's deliberately rough Spanish guitar, for that is the kind of guitar my gypsy characters play.
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I had a weekend of goodness—friendship, books, and sun, a crowd of azaleas on a woodsy path, the film "Kolya," (oh!), the book
Inside Out & Back Again (breathtaking), simple meals that turned out just fine, the weeds gone from (most) of the front garden.
Enough for anyone. Enough for me. But this morning the overwhelming goodness continues, as I discover the ineffable generosity of Ed Goldberg, who read
Small Damages one day after he received it, and wrote these
stunning words the following day on
Two Heads Together, the blog that he writes with his
Susan.
Ed, you have buoyed me from the very start of my young adult writing career. I am and will always be so grateful.
Every now and then a reader returns to you your own story. She reads with that rare passion. She honors your relationship your characters. She doesn't judge; she understands. She stays up late because you have, and because you will again.
That has happened here, and I am deeply moved. At Two Heads Together Susan writes of her response to
You Are My Only, a quiet and yet still controversial book that will always mean the world to me.
Her words mean the world.
She writes, in part, this. The rest can be found
here.
I read the stories of Sophie and Emmy, one beautiful word at a time, savoring the words and images evoked by the poetry Beth Kephart brings to us. Eager to turn the page but yet reluctant to let it go, I read on into the night knowing I needed sleep. How can I turn out the light when Emmy and Sophie yearn for what they can’t have? How can I leave them when they are trapped and alone?
Earlier this week, during my Facebook travels, I took note of a bit of news—a long-time correspondent-reviewer-friend (Ed) was starting a blog with his beloved (Susan).
Need to check that out, I said to myself, and in this blessed afternoon of quiet (I've been reading Leah Hager Cohen's
The Grief of Others and hope to report on that tomorrow), I turned the computer on to see what Ed and Susan have been up to.
Their blog is called
Two Heads Together. I quote its purpose here: "...we're two avid readers who just happen to be librarians. We deal with books all day long and then go home to read. Geeks? Maybe. Lovers of books? Definitely. We've decided to begin this blog because we see so many wonderful books become orphans either because of lack of support from publishers or lack of word of mouth."
It's a lovely idea, I thought—to dedicate a blog to authors and books that might not be getting the Grand Tour treatment. I was so very moved, then, when I realized that the blog's first post was dedicated to a suite of books by yours truly, and i
ncludes a truly kind review of
You Are My Only.
Reading this blog post brought to tears to my eyes; it also revived for me a memory: I was in Atlantic City, a one-night getaway with my husband, when an email came into Blackberry. It was from a man named Ed, who had been trying valiantly to get a copy of one of my earlier books for review. I am half blind at this point in my life and typed back what I'm sure was an error-rich message:
Send your address; I'll make sure that you get one. It probably read like this:
tbey sooe xxarrdss! I'll ,sru pfru u git 2.Ed's been a dear friend in the book journey life ever since. And Susan, I feel I know you and have always valued you. Even if you did purportedly steal a copy of
Dangerous Neighbors from Ed's own generous hands.
Thank you, both.
How exciting! :)