Waiting for taco time It's Friday! For Ren in Kimchi Taco Time, Friday night is taco night. So Friday seems the perfect day to announce this new book, written by June Jo Lee and me. The book will be published on October 6, one day before National Taco Day on October 7, just in time for taco-loving readers (and who … [Read more...] about Kimchi Taco Time
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Leaving while staying at home
Normally at this time in January I am packing my suitcase to leave home for 11 days and go to Hamline University to participate in the residency for the Masters program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. I always am energized by the preparation and the residency. Eleven days with other children's book writers at … [Read more...] about Leaving while staying at home
Begin With A Bee
Writing is most often a solitary act. We sit with paper and pencil, or computer, by ourselves, and build a story word by word, tear it down, build it again. But there is another kind of writing—collaboration—when we work with friends to create a story that is richer, more textured than what one writer alone might do. … [Read more...] about Begin With A Bee
