Now Read This

I recently covered NY-Metro SCBWI‘s January 2016 Professional Series. I’m always happy to be the “designated writer” when we’re short of people to cover.  I’m usually in attendence anyway, but the truth is that the sessions I’ve gotten the most out of are the sessions that I hadn’t planned on attending.

It’s always the thing that you didn’t expect that stays with you.

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The Writing Scene

The Writing Scene

For 2015 I had a few goals:
Read consciously.
Actively pursue reading diversely.
Read diversely.
Read work by diverse authors, across a diverse spectrum. This included reading books I didn’t want to read (more on this later).
Read a lot.
When I’m writing a lot, reading feels distracting. Too bad, I told myself. I wanted to know more about what was being published.
Listen up.
Listen diversely to what books are being talked about on Twitter
Read More A Year of Reading Diversely

Now Read This

Now Read This

The Writing Scene

I’ve finally gotten around to some little site improvements: I’ve added some new blogs to the list on the right, renamed “Diverse and Sundry Blogs.” All are worth a visit, especially Debbie Reese’s blog on Native Americans in children’s literature (and if you don’t follow…

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The Secret Lives of Hispanics

It was wonderfully foggy this afternoon, making it look like the entire Husdon basin was filled with clouds. José and his father would have loved this—and had a great story to explain it. Probably it was just technical glitch, but it’s so much more fun…

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