I love children's writers, especially those in Illinois.  I love them so much that I want to make them spinach lasagna and butter cookies--fatten them up--then squeeze their cheeks and tell them how cute they are.

Yesterday, I posed a question on my blog.  Basically, I was struggling with the concept of when is a good time to submit a new book ( Read more... )

We the editors of STACCATO, the blog of Trina Sotira, would like to apologize to Sharon Darrow, writing teacher extraordinaire, whom went unmentioned in the previous blog about Prairie Writer's Day.  Our writing team, which consisted of one person who had been sitting in a chair for eight hours listening and learning, dreaming and planning, devised ( Read more... )