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Sep.23.2009 O'Heading to O'Hare Soon I will be flying over the clouds on my way to Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Actually, no. I'll probably be pulled out of the security line at the airport again since I travel with a laptop, projector, etc. Plus, Peepy is on some sort of high security list ever since she attacked fashion icon/...	Sep.23.2009 How I, a Sci-Fi Author Build Worlds – My perspective of World Building How I, a Sci-Fi Author Build Worlds – My perspective of World Building World Building ... my wayWorld Building ... my way I once participated in a Sci-Fi critique group, where one of the authors asked about World Building. Our leader never expanded on this topic. When this topic was bought up, I...
Sep.09.2009 SLJ Recommends ROCK 'N' ROLL SOLDIER So I've been holding my breath. Kirkus and Booklist both gave great reviews to Rock 'N' Roll Soldier, the Vietnam War memoir for young adults I co-wrote with veteran Dean Kohler, just pubbed last week by HarperTeen. But School Library Journal, another of those key library industry journals, had...	Sep.05.2009 Totally Rockin' ROCK 'N' ROLL SOLDIER Review Reviews in newspapers and magazines are nice, but reviews by real-life readers are the best! Check this one out by a tenth grader in the Westchester, NY area: Dean Kohler’s rock n’ roll memoir is the true story of how even during combat in the Vietnam war, creating music is still possible. Right...
Sep.02.2009 Megan Crewe and GIVE UP THE GHOST In Megan Crewe's debut novel for young adults, Give Up The Ghost, her main character, Cass, is more comfortable hanging with ghosts than "breathers," especially when she discovers she can use the spirits to dig up the dirt on all of the back-stabbing poseurs at her school. But when...	Sep.01.2009 Writers aren't old dogs Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. –Gary Ryan Blair ( Mind Munchies: A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!) I spent...
Sep.01.2009 Happy Birthday ROCK 'N' ROLL SOLDIER! Seems like it was just two weeks ago that my last book launched – wait, it was! click here! – but today I'm doing the extra-super-happy dance for official publication of Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir, my first YA (young adult) title. Co-written with Vietnam veteran Dean Ellis Kohler, R 'N' RS...	Aug.13.2009 Feminine Marvelous and Tough: Dicey Tillerman, hero Warning! If you haven’t read Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman books, just go to the library and check them out now. Or go buy them from Amazon. Spoilers will be given in this blog today and I don’t want people miffed at me. There! On with the show! One of my favorite books this summer is Shelf...
Aug.03.2009 Interview With - Elise - "Reading Rocks Blog" Interview With - Elise - "Reading Rocks Blog" As anybody who has read me reviews interviews or heard my comments on either my own radio program or where I have been a guest, you will know I am a great believer in what I call the "Small Blogger". These are the people who...	Aug.03.2009 Lyn Miller-Lachmann and GRINGOLANDIA Twenty years ago, Lyn Miller-Lachmann had her first YA novel and oodles of critical kudos for it under her belt, plus an editor at a major publishing house interested in her second, Gringolandia. Set in the U.S. and Chile, Gringolandia followed an immigrant teen's challenge to connect with his...

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