Barb O'Connor tagged me. So blame her!!! (Note to Barb: my next chain letter goes to you, Honey...)
8 things about me....I hope this is at least mildly amusing, interesting, or random:
1. I lived in England when I was 11 and 16. Saw the Sex Pistols. (Syd Vicious threw up 25 feet in front of me.)
2. Yesterday, I looked in my closet and realized I owned 11 black dresses (but only one in another color). And two in the wrong size (you know what I mean.)
3. Things I'm most proud of: my kids, buying a house on my own, finishing my MFA, writing Head Case, writing four bad novels without any education whatsoever, being smart enough to say YES to M.
4. I have an MSPT, too. I used to work with people with traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries. If I had not moved to NH, I never would have written a novel.
5. I never thought I'd be a writer, but as a kid, I did want to be famous.
6. My children are both exactly my height. (in 30 days, this will change.)
7. I make an excellent spicy Thai seafood soup.
8. Lately, when I write, I listen to opera.
If you would like to share 8 things about yourself, consider yourself tagged.
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By: Sarah Aronson,
on 6/16/2007
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By: Eric Luper,
on 4/30/2007
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Yesterday, I was asked to speak at the Conference of the New Jerey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) in November at the Ocean Place Resort and Spa in Long Branch, NJ. Prior to learning about this spa and resort, the only thing I knew about Long Branch was that they used to have a really cool haunted mansion--at least the mansion was really cool to a 6 year-old who saw commercials for it every ten minutes on WPIX in between games of PIX, PIX, PIX! on WPIX.
Anyhow, my talk, entitled "The Birth of a YA Author...and Avid Reader" will take place on November 15th and will be an hour long. The topic is one I've blogged about a bunch of times and one that author Diana Peterfreund got me thinking about in depth. I will be talking about what it was that got me moving from being a reluctant reader to being an avid reader...and a writer!
I feel honored to be presenting to this group (as well as at the NYSRA conference the preceding week) because I think librarians, teachers and reading professionals play such an important role in the development of our children.
