Last week I had an online school visit with a great group of students, but our time was cut short because of some tech issues. Our test vis...

Thanks to my Class of 2k12 sister Gina Rosati for inviting me to be part of the Writing Process Blog Tour.  Gina is a library volunteer ...

Comparing the dogs I've had reminds me of how different we writers are. Our goal is the same—craft stories that readers love—but how w...

Sigh. It's over. I'm sad to see Breaking Bad go, but I couldn't be happier with the ending. As always, everything makes perfec...

If you're a writer and you watch Breaking Bad, you've certainly noticed that every episode, and the whole series itself, is a study...

Last month I attended a fabulous writing retreat in La Grange, Texas, with a group of Austin friends. Lots of fun yet productive, in a beaut...

I mentioned in my last two posts that I attended the Kindling Words West retreat in Taos, New Mexico last week. I flew into Albuquerque wit...

I mentioned in yesterday's Catching Up post that I'd write a little more about our poetry lessons from Nikki Grimes at Kindling...

This week I watched the new cooking competition show  The Taste , which is a lot like The Voice, but with a bite of food instead of a song...

This week at the Houston SCBWI It feels exactly this awkward to ask. But if they like it, they'll put a ring on it meeting I did ...

Hi everyone! Here's a little video I made for the Class of 2k12 blog recently, so I'm reposting here for your amusement. It has j...

I already miss Shark Week . Seven days of sharks just isn't enough. So, I re-watched  Jaws  recently, and found that besides the enterta...

The other day I wrote about several recent and upcoming elephant books for kids . Thankfully, you can never have too many elephant books, an...

Hi, people! It's an exciting time around here lately, with moving the daughter in to her new place for her sophomore year of college, ...