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July 4, 2008

Five whatevers for Anna Smudge!

 

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I love that people think outside of the box when rating books they've read. Nick Chance (aka the kid reviewer), rates stuff using what looks to be chocolate frosted donuts. Mmm. I live right near Dunkin Donuts, and I love that smell of freshly fried dough when they cook at 6am. I'm hungry just thinking about it. Enchanting reviews rates books using enchantments. And Jazma Online uses stars. All three of these places have given Anna five donuts, five enchantments, five stars, five whatever y...

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Published on July 04, 2008 10:15

June 9, 2008

Scott, Jane, and Little ol’ Me on WABC-TV!

Attention Parents: Try sitting on your kid in order to make them read in the summertime!




Aside from having to wake up at 7:30am, something I haven’t had to do since the early nineties, going on WABC was a really fun time. I met Jane O’Connor, Scott Westerfeld, and his wife, Justine Larbalestier, who’s also a very talented YA writer, in the WABC Green Room. The room, of course, wasn’t even remotely green, but it had some comfy sofas and we sat around chatting about the toils of publishing and...

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Published on June 09, 2008 10:41

Scott, Jane, and Little ol' Me on WABC-TV!

Attention Parents: Try sitting on your kid in order to make them read in the summertime!

Aside from having to wake up at 7:30am, something I haven't had to do since the early nineties, going on WABC was a really fun time. I met Jane O'Connor, Scott Westerfeld, and his wife, Justine Larbalestier, who's also a very talented YA writer, in the WABC Green Room. The room, of course, wasn't even remotely green, but it had some comfy sofas and we sat around chatting about the toils of publishing and ...

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Published on June 09, 2008 10:41