By: Bruce Black,
on 8/18/2013
Last weekend I went to visit my friend, Chuck, a writer of books for adults and children, whose nonfiction stories have appeared in Cricket magazine and elsewhere. We began meeting every month or so after I moved to Florida a decade ago. Both of us attended the same graduate writing program in Vermont and had met while sharing the dorm floor that had been reserved for the men in the program
By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 6/20/2011
Last Friday I was privileged to be included in a luncheon hosted by Scholastic Books and the New England Booksellers Association for YA writing sensations and all around awesome-women Libba Bray, Meg Cabot, and Maggie Stiefvater. The ladies were in town to visit the Wellesley Booksmith and to promote This is Teen, Scholastic's integrated teen community initiative, which works to unite teen
By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 5/10/2011
This afternoon I had the pleasure and privilege of participating in a lunch given in honor of author Jacqueline Davies and her new novel, The Lemonade Crime. This sequel to The Lemonade War is already picking up stars and praise a plenty--so no real change from the first book! I have to confess that I only recently read The Lemonade War--like, as soon as I received the invitation (no time like
By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 5/10/2011
......Jacqueline Davies and Jerry Pinkney as I prepare for not one, but two, author lunches this week. Ohhh....I could get used to this!
Thanks for a lovely post, Bruce.
Thank you for sharing your love of books, and friendship, in your thoughtful blog postings. So grateful to have met your friend, Chuck, today.
Thanks, Uma, for stopping by.<br /><br />And, Dianne, as always, I'm grateful for your kind words.
I worked with Chuck at Vermont, Bruce. I have a photo of him with myself and another of my students. In that picture, his smile is EXACTLY the same as the one in the pic you posted! When you see him next, please give him a hug from a fellow writer.
Louise, I will give him a hug, for sure. (And here's one back to you.)