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Poetry Speaks to the Emotions: A Visit with Carolee Dean and Caroline Starr Rose
Carolee Dean (Take Me There; Simon Pulse 2010) and Caroline Starr Rose (May B., Schwartz & Wade, 2012) gave a talk on writing novels in verse at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque on April14. May B. is a...
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“Hitting the Ground of Joy:” A Follow-up
My article “Hitting the Ground of Joy” (Horn Book May/June 2012) (1) takes a look at what Robert Louis Stevenson in his essay “The Lantern Bearers” (2)called “recondite joys,” which are singularly...
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Through New Eyes: An Interview with Lauren Bjorkman
This is part of a series of interviews with New Mexico children’s writers to celebrate the 2012 centennial. (1) Lauren Bjorkman (2)is the author of My Invented Life (Henry Holt , 2009), a YA novel that...
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Emotions are Eternal: An Interview with Carolyn Meyer
This is part of a series of interviews with New Mexico children’s writers to celebrate the state centennial in 2012. (1) Carolyn Meyer has made a career of writing historical fiction for young people....
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Carolyn Meyer and The Wild Queen
Words of wisdom from Carolyn Meyer: everyone needs a couple of flying pigs. (Or at least small flying pig figurines.) On to the recap of her very first appearance for her latest book in the Young...
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Story Economy: David Guetta’s Titanium Video
A very quick post, filed under Things Writers Can Learn from Music Videos: watch the video for “Titanium” by French DJ David Guetta featuring Australian singer Sia. Is it not a perfectly compact story,...
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Write to the Market: Shirley Raye Redmond on Writing Nonfiction for Kids (and...
This is part of a series of interviews with children’s writers in New Mexico to celebrate the 2012 centennial. Shirley Raye Redmond has written books about bunyips, mermaids, the Jersey Devil, and...
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Contest winner!
Congratulations to Lori Mortensen, who is the proud winner of Shirley Raye Redmond’s Fairies! and Oak Island Treasure Pit. Party favors and egg nog back at my place.
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What Do You Give an Author Who Has Everything?
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Coretta Scott King winner, librarian, and writing hero, recently received the Boston Globe Horn Book award for fiction for No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and...
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The Book You Want, in Seventeen Syllables
Book request haiku: what happens when librarians start to imagine patrons’ requests in a slightly poetic vein. I think the form also lends itself nicely to the tiny amount of information a librarian...
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The Old Wax Recordings Still Speak to Me
If I have to think of a joke on the spot, the first one I can remember is: What’s the difference between a duck? Answer: One of its legs is both the same. Never mind that most people I have tried to...
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On Being a Good Librarian and a Bad Reader
It may be somewhat fashionable to call oneself a bad reader, but I’m pretty sure I was bad at it before being bad was cool. I was bad before I read about it on the internet, at any rate. Look familiar?...
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