About Sam
I write middle grade level chapter books and young adult novels, for the most part, patching together life experiences with bits of sticky imagination and sloshing it all around in my mind until it starts to take shape. For characters, I grab a pinch of my first love and mix it with a dog I once befriended through a fence. Or sometimes a character comes from a long time friend mixed in with the g... More
Profile Comments
Comment by Eleanor Aspin on 4/14/2008 at 11:38 AM:
Hey, Sam, you'd make a great combination for a colorful character...kind of a cross between Elton on the food network, and a fella that works at my local post office. Thanks for the idea!
Cheers!
ElAspin
www.eleanoraspinbooks.com
Hey, Sam, you'd make a great combination for a colorful character...kind of a cross between Elton on the food network, and a fella that works at my local post office. Thanks for the idea!
Cheers!
ElAspin
www.eleanoraspinbooks.com
Comment by Mary Cunningham on 10/10/2007 at 11:53 AM:
Thanks for adding me, Sam, and for your comments about Curse of the Bayou.
Thanks for adding me, Sam, and for your comments about Curse of the Bayou.
Comment by Nataly Adrian on 7/12/2007 at 8:28 PM:
Hi Sam,
Thanks for adding me. You said we may have met on another board. Which one? That would be a great coincidence - or perhaps a destiny!
Best wishes and keep in touch,
Nataly Adrian
Hi Sam,
Thanks for adding me. You said we may have met on another board. Which one? That would be a great coincidence - or perhaps a destiny!
Best wishes and keep in touch,
Nataly Adrian
Comment by Sharon A Putnam on 7/9/2007 at 9:16 PM:
Hi Sam,
Thanks for adding me! It's always nice to meet other JacketFlap members, especially those in and around Seattle. My son moved out there this past November, just in time for the floods and then the huge snow storm...well ...huge by Seattle standards anyway. It would have been consi... more
Thanks for adding me! It's always nice to meet other JacketFlap members, especially those in and around Seattle. My son moved out there this past November, just in time for the floods and then the huge snow storm...well ...huge by Seattle standards anyway. It would have been consi... more
Comment by Todd-Michael St. Pierre on 6/6/2007 at 11:55 AM:
Welcome Sam... Happy JacketFlapping!
Welcome Sam... Happy JacketFlapping!
Comment by Stephanie Reed on 6/5/2007 at 7:32 PM:
Thanks, Sam, good to see you here, too. I hope you have a humorous WIP at some point.
Thanks, Sam, good to see you here, too. I hope you have a humorous WIP at some point.
After reading your bio, I just had to comment. It's funny you say that you rarely take a character from people you know. For me, when I make up characters, personalities--the whole works--and I think I've been as original as I can be, I end up meeting the people I thought I'd created,... more