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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Musings on a First Criticism

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I received my first negative review of something I'd written when I was in tenth grade. Up to that point, I'd gotten lots of lovel...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Throw Your Clay with Great Force and Don't Wait 20+ Years to Follow a Childhood Dream...

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A couple of weeks ago my good friend and fellow YA author Natalie D. Richards invited me to come along with her to a ceramics studio. Nat...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Everything but the Kitchen Sink-- Also known as Trying Every Trick in the Book... To Write a Book

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It's weird to write a book. I've done it more than ten times, and I still think it's weird. I know how it works, how to do it...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015

In Which I Take a Much Needed Vacation and Remember I have a Tattoo

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Last week I took a vacation with my family. We drove sixteen hours in one day to get to Port Charlotte, Florida, where my aunt lives in a lo...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Why I Went Indie -- Guest Post by Holly Schindler

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My writing friend Holly Schindler has a new book out today--her first non-traditionally published novel, and her first in the category of wh...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Panicking over Poetry (otherwise known as the time I was a doofball and sabotaged my own dream)

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When I was twenty-one and fresh out of college, I started an MFA in poetry at the University of Memphis. I spent an interesting year writing...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

Excavating the Past --Also a word about 19th century outhouses in Cincinnati

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The other day the guy at Goodwill scolded my husband and me. Apparently when you have a bunch of  crap bigger items to drop off at one of th...
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