NY area peeps: I’m doing a writing workshop this Thursday, October 18 from 12:30-2:00pm at the Chappaqua Library. It’s free and open to anyone in grades 8-12. We’ll be talking about character, setting, plot and using paranormal elements, with a heavy emphasis on hands-on writing and sharing by participants. Also, there will be pizza. For more info, [...]

My library had their annual book sale this weekend. Kid in a candy shop? If all the candy costs ten cents and the kid has ten dollars, that’s pretty much what it was like. I mean, look at all these BOOKS!             As luck would have it, the sale started on the last [...]

I am deep in edits for How It Ends, a manuscript I’m hoping to have finished by the end of May. That’s what’s up with all the radio silence here lately. But this Friday, May 11th I’ll be at the Westchester Library Association Conference in Tarrytown, NY for lunch and book signing.  There’ll be copies of The Mark and [...]

We’re having a massive giveaway at The Tenners:  one public or school library will be selected to receive a set of 54 books by 2010 MG and YA debut authors! All you have to do to enter is capture any one of our books in the wild. Take a photo of yourself, another librarian, a patron, [...]

One: Thanks to all the blog commenters over the past four days!  We raised $77 for the Berks County Public Libraries.  A complete list of participating blogs is here and many of the challenges are still active - stop by to comment & increase their donation amount, if you can.   Two: After many late nights, the first round of Vision’s [...]

I’m participating in Jenn Hubbard’s library-loving blog challenge! For every commenter on this post between now and Friday, March 26th at 5pm EST, I’ll donate $1 to Berks County Public Libraries up to $150 total.   Berks County is where I grew up and the libraries there, the ones that had a real impact on me.  I [...]