Remember FAQs? Do people still do those? I feel like I should be leaning forward and speaking in trembling voice as I clutch the ball of my cane, but back in the early 90s when the World Wide Web was a whippernapper you'd find nary a website without a "FAQ" or page of "frequently asked [...:]
You might have heard there's a bestselling book that rewrites Pride and Prejudice and adds zombies. I think there are other classics re-told with monsters, and perhaps a few that do it the other way round (say, Frankenstein without the monster, which would be a nice existentialist fable.) But what if this trend hits children's [...:]
Back in the early days of this blog I wrote this post about painting the deck and likening it to finishing a novel-length manuscript. Now, within the last week, I have both mailed back the final edits to my second novel, and repainted the deck (I paint it every five years, whether it needs it [...:]
Matt Miller, who appears in my forthcoming novel, Mamba Point is a big fan (like I was when I was his age, and still am) of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Unlike me, Matt has even written fan fiction — namely, a short novel set in Burroughs' world of Pellucidar, the primitive world on the inside of [...:]
Hi my name is Pippi and I am one of five cats in the Scaletta family. I am the youngest kitty and they say I'm the baby even though I am nearly TWO!!! I was born in a garage and the Scalettas took me and my cat mommy Lucy in otherwise who knows where we'd be [...:]
Let me ask you what I asked the sixth graders at South View Middle School. As I work on my third book, which will hopefully come out after the snake book, and which is about a 13-year-old football player who lives in a small town in Maine, I have one very important decision to make. [...:]
Thanks to the folks who've drawn me snakes, which you can find in my snake gallery. Recent additions come from terrific authors like Saundra Mitchell and Laurel Snyder, and world-class agent (I'm a bit biased) Tina Wexler. Follow the link and click "Send Me Your Snakes" for instructions. Also thanks to excellent individuals who are [...:]
Since 2001 I've lived in the nicest part of probably the most maligned part of Minneapolis, "North Minneapolis," really a composite of two communities–"Near North" and "Camden." More information than you need, probably, but "NoMi" as it has recently come to call itself is in a time of tumult. It was the hardest hit in [...:]
I asked some kids to draw snakes today, and will soon be posting them to my ever-growing snake gallery. Sam’s comic particularly struck me as being packed with awesomeness on many levels and I wanted to share it here, as I am sure you will agree.
