en-US Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:22:46 -0800 60 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/248282-blog-what-s-that Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:22:46 -0800 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/248282-blog-what-s-that
The Inspector Rutledge series, by Charles Todd. (adult historical mysteries, from the library) I've read all of them, starting with A Test of Wills through six other titles to the most recent A Long Shadow. I love the tec--a World War I vet haunted by a Scots soldier who died under his command ...

posted by Linda Sue Park on December, 14 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/201459-where-to-start Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:55:23 -0800 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/201459-where-to-start
Working backwards:

--Lunch in Niagara Falls, New York, at the New York Library Association annual conference, to accept the Empire State Award for my body of work. What a tremendous honor! A thousand thanks to the Youth Services Section and the award committee, with special thanks to Charlot...

posted by Linda Sue Park on November, 03 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/169683-september-events Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:20:25 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/169683-september-events Genesee Reading Series at
Writers and Books
740 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
Members, $3; Public, $6

http://www.wab.org/events/grseries.shtml

Author Will Hubbell and I will be reading from our work. Will is a children's author/illustrator and an adult fantasy author; he'll be reading from his new fantasy novel. I'll be reading both fiction and poetry.

Writers and Books is a great organization that sponsors and supports hundreds of reading and writing activities in

posted by Linda Sue Park on September, 23 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/158855-recent-reading Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:19:25 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/158855-recent-reading

ESCAPING THE TIGER, by Laura Manivong. Middle-grade contemporary realism. 12-year-old Vonlai escapes from Laos with his family to a refugee camp in Thailand. I love stories that illuminate a little-known corner of the world. Vonlai's story (inspired by the life of the author's husband) made me cheer and cry.


SEA OF THE DEAD, by Julia Durango. Middle-grade action/adventure. Kehl lives in the (fictional) Teshic empire, son of the great Warrior Prince. But who is

posted by Linda Sue Park on August, 24 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/145903-scbwi-annual-la-conference Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:20:59 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/145903-scbwi-annual-la-conference
TEAM BLOG: http://scbwiconference.blogspot.com/

Alice Pope: http://cwim.blogspot.com/2009/08/scbwi-summer-conference-fantastic.html

Lisa Yee: http://lisayee.livejournal.com/113367.html

Jay Asher: http://jayasher.blogspot.com/2009/08/s

posted by Linda Sue Park on August, 20 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/127038-a-perfect-day-and-recent-reading Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:19:22 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/127038-a-perfect-day-and-recent-reading



Top trio, from left: Marsha Hayles, me, Ellen Stoll

posted by Linda Sue Park on August, 05 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/115616-a-few-photos-from-chicago Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:19:33 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/115616-a-few-photos-from-chicago





At Ashley Bryan's birthday party:

With Eloise Greenfield, poet and author, and her wonderful new book, CHILDTIMES, a memoir of three generations of her family.





With members of "my

posted by Linda Sue Park on July, 27 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/109869-chicago-and-provo Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:07:03 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/109869-chicago-and-provo poet Laura Purdie Salas, and children's l

posted by Linda Sue Park on July, 30 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/79291-event-free-and-open-to-the-public Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:09:10 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/79291-event-free-and-open-to-the-public
Saturday, June 27, 11:00am-noon

Seymour Library
161 East Avenue
Brockport, New York

Presentation and signing.

I love libraries!!



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My latest project: A LONG WALK TO WATER

What I'm working on now: THE 39 CLUES

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posted by Linda Sue Park on July, 01 ]]> /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/64125-some-really-nice-news Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:16:27 -0700 /author/show/61707.Linda_Sue_Park/blog/64125-some-really-nice-news
illustration c. 2009 Jim Averbeck


In January, Breakfast Serials Inc. released A LONG WALK TO WATER, a serial story I'd written to be published one chapter per week in newspapers. The story means a lot to me, and I've been worried about the timing, as newspapers everywhere seem to be in a bad way these days.

So it was with utter delight that today I received an e-mail from the Times-News in Burlington, North Carolina, telling me how much their readers had enjoyed the story! The paper even gave its

posted by Linda Sue Park on June, 11 ]]>