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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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Real life? What’s that?

Sometimes writing completely consumes me. All I want to do is write. I write in between studio calls at work, I write in the car during lunch break, and I write from the moment I get home until Bubba forces me to stop and go to bed. In bed, before I fall asleep, I think [...]

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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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Oh, Joe, I feel your pain.

Today, I feel a little bit like Joe Black: (Full Disclosure: this is the only part of Meet Joe Black I have ever seen.) So, what with me feeling like I was hit by a car–er, two cars, there will be no real blog post today. Sorry, friends, but thanks for stopping by anyway! What? [...]

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Rob Zombie remaking “The Blob”

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming:   I work in the movie business, so I have a LOT of movie news coming in every day. Normally, I will not be posting about movie news (unless, of course, I learn that y’all actually like for me to), but this one is too good (read: BAD) to [...]

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