Before I move on to today's fabulous guest post, I just want to say: THANK YOU to everyone who read, signal-boosted, and/or replied to my blog post yesterday. It was a really scary post to write and to make public, but the support I've gotten for it has been amazing.

Thank you.But today I am practicing stubborn gladness and moving back to hot ( Read more... )

Last night after MrD went to bed, Patrick said, "What do you want to do for the rest of Valentine's Day?"

I knew exactly what I wanted. "Can we watch another episode of Battlestar Galactica?" (Yes, I have FINALLY discovered this show, only several years later than the rest of the world...and now I am addicted. Patrick has already watched it, but ( Read more... )

...at Bookbabblers, where I'm talking about my favorite literary heroines and what they taught me about strength, feminism and romance.

Here are a couple of snippets:

When I think of heroines, I think of the books I most loved as a kid: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Crocodile on the Sandbank, The ( Read more... )

...is over at "I was a teenage book geek", where I'm blogging about one of the books that changed my life forever:

I still remember the moment I opened Elizabeth Peters’s Crocodile on the Sandbank for the first time. I was at Camp Blue Lake, a two-week-long music camp which I was attending - unfortunately - as a piano major. I’d been there for a ( Read more... )

Note from Steph: I've been a fan of Saundra's blog for a long time, and I really admire the work she's done helping teens to make their own films as part of Fresh Films and Fresh Writing. Her YA novel, Shadowed Summer (which was nominated for an Edgar Award), is a delicious ghost story set in a small Southern town. It's coming out in paperback on ( Read more... )