By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 11/24/2016
Wish I could take credit for the nice graphic, but in fact I found it on a great site called Open Clip Art. It's based on art from the Columbia Evening Missourian of 1922.With much love and gratitude for the amazing people of the kidlit... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 11/14/2016
I haven't been producing a lot of new content (or stringing together coherent sentences) over the past week, so instead of a regular blog post I thought I'd do a quick roundup of other online stuff I've been doing:I donated to the Sierra Club... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 10/19/2016
...oh, I'm not laughing at the message itself -- I believe that. There are some people who are not your forever friends, and the sooner you know that, the better. The last lines make me crack up, though, because honestly, what else are you gonna do... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 5/27/2016
AF and I met up the other day at our grad school alma mater, Mills College, to speak to the graduate and undergraduate writers in Kathryn Reiss's YA writing course. It was a lot of fun, but it was an afternoon class, and it was a fairly warm... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 2/8/2016
It's been eleven years of blogging for Tanita and me. Can you believe it? I went diving into our archives and found a few fun tidbits from our blogging past, in honor of our Feb. 24th blogversaryThree years in, I posted a cartoon of THE TWO OF US in... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 11/23/2015
Vegetarian or vegan, kosher or carnivore, this is one turkey we can all get behind, especially book lovers and paper fetishists such as myself. Thanks to Reading With Scissors for this one:Happy Thanksgiving, all! See you next week. In the meantime,... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 9/28/2015
Sorry for the long radio silence. But I promise I will make it worth your while with PICTURES! The hubs and I were in Washington, DC for about 10 days and got back on Saturday night, and of course the trip was a whirlwind of food, fun, and lots and... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 9/2/2015
This work is copyrighted material. All opinions are those of the writer, unless otherwise indicated. All book reviews are UNSOLICITED, and no money has exchanged hands, unless otherwise indicated. Please contact the weblog owner for further... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 7/16/2015
1. I did a few more behind-the-scenes updates to Chasing Ray, which is where I got the idea for this post structure. Now you get to read about Stuff I Done Did, in no particular order, for no particular reason. Whee!2. I just finished reading an ARC... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 5/22/2015
Hello! I have lost time this week - I've been a day behind for the entire time, and I'm like, "It's Friday? Really?" This is the sad, sad result of going to meetings all week for various wonderful institutions - somehow this is the year of the... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 4/30/2015
Yep, that's what you get from me today, because it is the last week of school and my upcoming weekend will be filled with GRADING FUN as well as previously scheduled and poorly timed social engagements.Saturday, for instance, I'll be attending the... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 2/20/2015
Yes, I am the big nerd who occasionally has themed bookshelves. In my house. Because, apparently I am a pretend librarian. Happy Friday, kids! I'm here because I'm procrastinating. Knowing that, I'm going to keep this short... but I did want to pop... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 1/23/2015
Publishing and the kidlitosphere tends to slow down around Thanksgiving, and it tends to take awhile to get back up to speed... it seems like we slowed down a little at the Wonderland treehouse as well. There will be a little more slowing from my... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 1/19/2015
We are now well into the Round 2 judging period for the Cybils Awards, and this year I'm on the committee for Graphic Novels (both YA and Elementary/Middle Grade), which is always wonderfully fun for me. Without going into detail on the actual books... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 7/22/2014
©2012, Debbie Ridpath Ohi. P.S. - Don't miss Liz Garton Scanlon on BookPeople, Austin's blog today. Good stuff!
This work is copyrighted material. All opinions are those of the writer, unless otherwise indicated. All book reviews are UNSOLICITED,... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 7/18/2014
OH, my word, it's the weekend -- and it makes us want to flee! Anywhere! Well, anywhere there's water and sun, probably. Or, barring that, lovely rain, and a good bookstore with a nice coffee shop. And tights. Even if we can't pop off to Futurama in... Read the rest of this post
By: Sarah Stevenson,
on 7/14/2014
"Needs more adjectives."I ran across an interesting news item in the Writer's Chronicle March/April issue entitled "Scientific Study Claims Ability to Predict Best-Selling Novels." Yes, I will admit there is a small part of me which is intrigued by... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 6/12/2014
...I saw several while we were traveling the past few weeks. (Travel was the reason for my recent blog absence. I usually have the best intentions of blogging while away, but I almost always end up too exhausted to even think about doing anything... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 4/21/2014
Some links to book news I found interesting over the past week:Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares has written a...time travel dystopian novel? It's called The Here and Now, and you can read about it...now. On NPR. Gabriel Garcia Marquez isn't the... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 4/2/2014
It started last November with an Indiegogo campaign - raise five grand to produce and fund (for a year - the goal is for it to carry its own weight at some point, I would assume) a free ezine for teens containing diverse speculative fiction stories.... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 3/24/2014
Just drowning in work. I'm here, though! And I promise more words (and occasional pictures) will spill forth in multitudes (or, at least, multiples) soonish.In the meantime, I just found out the Hans Christian Andersen awards were announced by the... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 3/3/2014
Though I've been, as I mentioned, completely snowed under (TOTALLY metaphorical, as I live in California, for which nobody on the other side of the country is going to feel sorry for me AT ALL) with work, I did run across a couple of interesting... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita♥davis,
on 9/6/2013
What a week! There have been new beginnings, a lot of endings, and they finally found the worms from Dune. I knew they were lurking around somewhere... Did you know Ellen Hopkins was responsible for that whole Miley Cyrus debacle? Who knew! I really... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 5/13/2013
Just tuning in with a few links on a lazy Monday--lazy because we're in Hawaii, at our friends' house on the Big Island, enjoying a much-needed vacation. Sadly, I did bring some work with me, but only a minimum of such, which, for me, is pretty... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita davis,
on 4/12/2013
It's the end of the week at last, book people, and evenings of reading followed by days of work - removing either dirt, or snow, or dragging your recalcitrant house/partners/homework/pets/offspring into order - await you. It's not D.E.A.R. day for... Read the rest of this post
Meg Medina said it well:
"I believe that one way we adults can help is to acknowledge the reality of what our kids are experiencing…"
Every time we refuse to acknowledge that reality, we push them further into the corner. And I would ask principals in these situations to think about exactly what message is being sent to young people, when authors are asked not to speak the truth about kids' experiences.
Thanks for the links, and the mention! I think Sherman Alexie is the boss. Are you going to go be a bookseller???
Great links! The crossgenre YA writers article was mind blowing. I didn't know that so many YA writers started by writing for TV.
@Jennifer R. Hubbard~ I am learning to understand that even writing and avoiding the "coarse language" that they hear on a daily basis is, in a minor way, also refusing to acknowledge a reality. That's... something to think about.
@ Charlotte~ I wish. We have just about zero indies around here - the one we had has recently undergone a shift to be B&N Lite. I don't love it.
@LinWash ~ I'm actually trying to read more screenwriting stuff with the idea that maybe incorporating some of what they do will make more visual, appealing novels. It's got to go both ways!