Happy New Year, f-list!  Hope you all had a great holiday/season/whatever with family, friends, and food.  I did.  Too much food, but I will remedy that in the next few weeks.

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Off to Ohio for a few days.  Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, all!

Edit:  Arrived safely.  Safe travels, everyone!

I'm off to Ohio tomorrow night, for a week of fun with friends and family.  Packing a winter coat for spring break seems a little crazy, though.  Internet access may be spotty.  Later!

A few quick things.

I got a $1000 grant from IBM to buy a collection of books for our super-low readers, written on a K-3 grade level.  Yay.  I think they'll be excited to see we have books just for them.

An exciting day yesterday.  I swear I'm not making this up.  First, one of our 7th grade students went into labor.  The receptionist was timing her ( Read more... )

 “Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker.  You’d better find out if you’re any good at it before you start charging money for it.”  p 134

Some post-teen English major enslaved to the publisher to proof copy could go through and make sure that Runewind’s horse was not black on one page and brown on another.  Really, he didn’t know ( Read more... )

Driving to Cleveland for a funeral.  Back on Saturday.  Should have some internet access, but we'll see.

A continuation from the previous post.  The YALSA YA Breakfast and the Newbery/Caldecott Banquet.

YALSA YA Breakfast
On Sunday my traveling companions and I went to the Young Adult Author Breakfast, sponsored by YALSA.  We had no idea what to expect and as we entered we saw that each table had two spaces with signs that said "Reserved For Author."  ( Read more... )

Script Ohio!  Yay!

Edit:  Yikes!  What a rout.

Back from Ohio.  A nice trip, but I'm very tired and very glad to be home.

Kate:  Want to do a three-day walk to raise money for breast cancer research?  We would walk 20 miles a day, then sleep in bubble tents.  We can choose from several cities to walk around.  It would be fun!

Me:  20 miles a day, huh?  Do you think the bubble tent have enough ( Read more... )

*dons Ohio State sweatshirt*