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Have I mentioned Banned Books Week yet?

I have decided to finally flesh out my writing page with more detail. Writing blurbs is the bane of my existence (okay, that is harsh, but I find blurb writing harder than a lot of other writing), so it might take me a while to get things the way I want them. This leaves me [...]
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I read banned books

Tomorrow kicks off the official start of Banned Books Week. If you have been following my blog, you have probably gotten the impression this is something I am passionate about. The impression is right. Censorship is NO GOOD. It angers me every time I hear of a person, or a group of people, demanding a [...]
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What are the responsibilities of a YA author?

Continuing our discussion of banned books (and gearing up for Banned Book Week), check out this awesome post by Laurie Halse Anderson about schools trying to ban her books. The excerpts from her readers’ letters are especially powerful. So, I had started writing a different post today (which will now be posted tomorrow), but after [...]
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Personality Toolkit: Drive

First off, sorry for not posting this yesterday. The interwebs decided they hated me and wouldn’t let me submit. Urg. As many of you already know, Ellen Hopkins is feeling the burn of book banners. She was set for a school visit in OK; when a couple days before the visit, one parent demanded her [...]
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