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Aug.26.2009
Helena Bonham-Carter is to play Enid Blyton in a new BBC4 series this autumn. I'm sure it will be fascinating (for some) to find out what a bad mother she was to her two girls, and other salacious details about her life, and to relate those things to the literary merit or otherwise of her books.
I...
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Aug.17.2009
Yesterday, as I was riding my bicycle in the hills near my house, I came upon a garage sale where a man was selling two cartons of old picture books. By old, I don’t mean the discarded, chewed upon Scholastic paperbacks you find at most garage sales, but worn and lovely books from the forties ,...
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Jul.01.2009
Yesterday in the slightly cooler weather, my intrepid mother and I set out to look at cars. No, not for me. I am happy with my MINI, whom I have named Tiny (so original!). Tiny and I are happy, though I have begun to lust for a small pickup truck into which I can through bags of dirt, ladders,...
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Jun.21.2009
I'm happy to announce that my children's picture book, Crash!, released by Guardian Angel Publishing last year, is now available in a Spanish edition.
I'm donating 50% of my royalties of both editions to Almost Heaven Golden Retriever Rescue & Sanctuary.
Blurb:
Marcelo is thrilled when he...
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Apr.24.2009
Patrick "Packy" Mader will begin his spring and summer programs near his roots, at Trista Days on Saturday, May 16. Minnetrista is a city between the towns of Mound and St. Bonifacius and is where the farm is located that Packy lived and worked at for many years. Please come and...
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Apr.21.2009
It's been said that writing for children is more difficult than writing for adults. I suspect this is passed along by children's authors compensating for the condescension they sometimes face, real or imagined, as the featherweights of literature. Tell someone you write for children and you're...
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Apr.17.2009
For somebody who ended up aspiring to be a writer of vaguely literary fiction, I had the most dismal reading habits when I was a child. Cutting my teeth on Buster & Giggles and the Beano, I graduated to war comics, Alistair Maclean, and the blood-fests of Sven Hassel. Literary fiction didn’t...
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Mar.31.2009
Excitement! Excitement! My new children's fantasy novel, Shadowland, came out today! (For a description and excerpt, see www.chitradivakaruni.com). It is a stand alone book, but it's also the final novel in the Brotherhood of the Conch trilogy, a project I began in 2002--a long haul. I want to...
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Mar.23.2009
The Sisters Eight, Book 3: Georgia's Greatness goes on sale today. Please tell anyone you know with 6- to 10-year-olds who love to read!
It all began with Annie's Adventures, of which Kirkus said, "BaratzLogsted's tales of thrills, suspense and hijinks should satisfy adventureseeking young...
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Mar.17.2009
I am both blessed and cursed with a 'satiable curtiosity much like that of Kipling's Elephant's Child. This is, perhaps, the main reason I am a writer. My brain is wired to ask the sorts of questions which drive a parent mad in a five year-old. "I wonder why" is one of my default modes,...
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