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June 6, 2018
Life on the road — my mini tour full of surprises
I’ve been on the road, first launching and promoting The Game of Hope in Toronto, then a long drive home to unpack, regroup, and repack before heading to Montreal for the wonderful first (of many, we hope) Montreal YA fest. It has been fantastic. At the Penguin launch in Toronto, an older woman leaned in […]
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May 21, 2018
A wonderful audible edition of The Game of Hope
I’m writing this in Toronto, a long way from home. Tomorrow I have a full schedule of two interviews, a book store signing, and then, in the evening, a book launch of The Game of Hope. I sent off the final corrections to The Game of Hope last October, and since then I’ve been researching and […]
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May 13, 2018
To all the mothers in my life
I’ll begin with my mother, Sharon Brezee Zentner, shown here with me and our daughter Carrie, who is now a mother herself. And then there is my grandmother May Brezee, who was a special person in my life. She is shown here having just been introduced to her great-granddaughter, Carrie. May had a number of […]
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April 15, 2018
On the evolution of The Game of Hope
On November 2, 2011 (the day before my birthday), my agent, Jackie Kaiser, called to tell me that I’d been made a very tempting offer by Penguin to write two YA novels. One was to be about Josephine’s daughter Hortense, and the second was to be of my choosing. My husband and I were in […]
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April 10, 2018
The evolution of The Game of Hope
On November 2, 2011 (the day before my birthday), my agent, Jackie Kaiser, called to tell me that I’d been made a very tempting offer by Penguin to write two YA novels. One was to be about Josephine’s daughter Hortense, and the second was to be of my choosing. My husband and I were in […]
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April 1, 2018
What are you crushing on?
I’ve become very fond of a podcast about Young Adult lit called Kidlit Drink Night. They always make me laugh and I end up making lots of notes about books, movies and TV series to look into. They call themselves “Superfriends,” which is sweet. There is a lot of laughing. They share a love of […]
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March 26, 2018
The terrors of publication
{Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash.} Because I publish only every four or five years, in spite of my best intentions — in spite of being at my desk virtually every day for hours! — I forget how fraught the publication process is. The first sign of “nerves” is going into a tizzy over the […]
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March 23, 2018
Exposing Google’s underbelly
As a blogger, I watch the ups and downs of my blogs’ attendance as closely as I used to watch my Amazon.com ratings. Thanks to Google Analytics, however, I can now find out much more than how many people are visiting my site. Through Analytics I can find out how long visitors lingered, which pages they […]
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March 20, 2018
Bed-bound promo, website craziness, and Scrivener awe
I’ve been bed-bound for over a week since a minor knee operation to repair a meniscus issue. I’m not going to whine about it! In fact, I’ve discovered that I’m the perfect candidate for this type of life. On the bed beside me are: my Mac Air (now on my lap); my Levenger notebook (calendar […]
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March 14, 2018
3 ways to begin to develop the characters in your story
I promised in my last post on beginning a novel that I would write about creating characters. Of course, to begin with, I have characters swarming, ideas both historical and fictional. I’ve already searched photo databanks for images that might fit. (Currently, I like using Unsplash for contemporary photos, largely because they tend to be more natural and […]
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