Most of you know by now that the world lost an extraordinarily talented author and a truly lovely woman yesterday. L.K. Madigan lost her battle with pancreatic cancer. I "knew" Lisa only virtually, as a fellow Morris Award winner. For those of you, like me, who never got to meet her in person, I'm sharing the video she made for the American Library ( Read more... )

I'm sure everyone in LJ-land has heard the crushing news about author L.K. Madigan's battle with pancreatic cancer, which she shared publicly on her blog last week. I don't know Lisa well, but I feel strongly connected to her through the Morris Award for a young adult debut, which we celebrated just days earlier with our interview series with the ( Read more... )