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Yesterday I spent the day with several of my author friends at our New Jersey Council of Teachers of English conference. We met lots of wonderful teachers from many different school districts...
View ArticleI Just Haven't Met You Yet
No matter how many times I hear the song "I Just Haven't Met You Yet" I just don't get tired of it. When I heard it today it began to take on a whole new meaning. I've been revisiting a manuscript that...
View ArticleFriday Five
Happy April! Happy Poetry Month!1. For Poetry Month I'm committing to writing one poem every day. It may not be the best poem but it will be a good poem that I'll be able to go back later and make...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month
My Friday Three. Here's three tidbits I thought I'd share on a Friday for National Poetry Month.Check out PBS Poetry EverywhereI really enjoyed listening to poet Billy Collins read his poem "The...
View ArticleNational 'non-fiction day' planned for November | theBookseller.com
Hooray for nonfiction! National nonfiction day is planned for November this year. Check it out!National 'non-fiction day' planned for November | theBookseller.com
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View ArticleFriday Five
1. My new Amazing Dog series goes off to the printer today. Know what that means? In just 60 days real live books will be arriving. I can't wait!2. Today I'm reviewing two of the titles for my...
View ArticleExpressions of Hope Event
I'm looking forward to reading and speaking at the Expressions of Hope Event at the Elizabeth Campus of Union County College this Saturday. All proceeds benefit Haiti Relief. What a perfect way to wind...
View ArticleEmbrace Change
My Friday Five:1. Don't2. Fight 3. Change4. Embrace5. It!I'm embracing many changes lately (too many to list), but today I'm embracing changes to a manuscript that is near and dear to my heart. Change...
View ArticleFriday...Whew!
I'm excited to have signed a contract for six more books about...you guessed it...dogs!These are the breeds I'll be writing about and it even includes mixed breeds. Writing about dogs is soooooo much...
View ArticleBook Club
I returned from vacation to find out that there's a new book club on the block and I could even be a part of it if I wanted to. The best part is our first book is I was excited because I already...
View ArticleThankful Thursday
I'm thankful that we had perfect weather for our beach vacation and that I found a great place to write overlooking the bay. We also visited an awesome little bookstore where the title of this book...
View ArticleMoney-Saving Tip
Did you know you can save on printer ink by using the Century Gothic font? Apparently it consumes one third less ink than Arial. I don't know about you, but I go through ink like crazy and I print...
View ArticleFriday Five
Couldn't help to pause and take a look back at my very busy week. It's no wonder I didn't get too much writing done but I had fun.1. Monday - helped out at the Dance for the Cure booth at the Rotary...
View ArticleFriday Six?
Here are the covers of my new six-book series that will be available this fall. They were fun to write and a completely new experience for me to work with an illustrator. These books are for grades K-3...
View ArticleThis week
While I was in Red Bank this week it just so happened that the public library was the only library that had a particular book I needed for research for my new picture book. Normally, I would just have...
View ArticleFriday Five
1. It started with a school visit that during lunch I was going to meet with their book club.I wanted to be able to talk to the kids about the book they were currently reading, so prior to the visit I...
View ArticleNew Fall Books!
Look what I just got! Copies of all of my new books from Amazing Working Dogs series and Imagining the Future series (except for one that isn't in yet). Brody was checking them out.Since it was a rainy...
View ArticleNYC Anime/Comic Con
My teenage daughter has been an anime fan for years. She loves to read it and does some fantastic illustrations. Just this past year she started going to anime cons. This is something new to me, but...
View ArticleFriday Three Because I Don't Have Five
1. I thought alot about comic books after Comic Con and even read a few that I picked up at the show. While browsing through a box of old comics at a dealer table, my earliest memory of comic books...
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