When I read Jen’s mournful post about the books she’s lost in the various moves between childhood and adulthood, my heart broke a little. One becomes accustomed to losses — and there really are many things you lose between childhood and adulthood — but you hope the losses don’t include things like spontaneity and whimsy — and books. Jen — we’re glass half-empty type of people when it comes to lost books, too. But don’t give up hope — there may yet be an overlooked box somewhere…
Oh, cool! Mitali’s live-blogging from the Northeast SCBWI conference! She’s hung out with Laurie Halse Anderson, and now she’s sitting next to Nancy Werlin!
Via Bookshelves o’ Bookish Doom, — Harlequin has been wading into the YA market for awhile now, as we know — but we’ve never taken a look at the writer’s guidelines for the Kimani Tru series before. Okay, WOW, specific, maybe? And we thought it was cool that Colleen had a pocketful of plots.
Life with house guests, or “Death March with Castles,” as I like to call it, continues through Tuesday, so the posting will be a bit erratic, but I’m still here! And I’m hearing rumors of a sestina challenge with the Poetry Princesses, and they claim *I* started it.
MOI!?
Man. Some poets. Can’t take a joke.