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Paperback Release of Meradeth Houston's COLORS LIKE MEMORIES!

Today on the blog I'm pleased to welcome my friend, Meradeth Houston, whose debut YA, COLORS LIKE MEMORIES is now available in paperback! At these places:

http://www.amazon.com/Colors-Like-Memories-ebook/dp/B0083ODXSG/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore/index.php/new-releases/series/colors-like-memories-print-book-detail

Hi! *waves* I'm incredibly excited to announce the paperback release for COLORS LIKE MEMORIES. The ebook release has been a blast, and it is especially aw...

I'm a Pitch Wars Mentor!

So the fabulous Brenda Drake hosts an amazing contest for unagented writers with unpublished manuscripts - part of the deal is you apply to be mentored by one of 47 mentors. This mentor works with you and your entire manuscript, as well as your pitch, to prepare you for the agent round in January.

For full details and the exact dates, go HERE.

Anyway, I'm a mentor and I'm super excited to participate and work with someone out there who's chasing the dream.


I can't tell you my wish list yet, but...

KEEPER OF WONDER: An Interview With Julia Elizabeth DeRuiter

Today I'm excited to introduce my first international librarian on the blog. Julia De Ruiter lives in NEW ZEALAND! Now forever known as "that place Lord of the Rings" was filmed. You can find Julia on Twitter at @JuliaDeRuiter
Let's begin!
Tell us about your library? (Where, what, anything quirky or cool?) What's your job title and description?
 I work in a medium sized public library in Oamaru, New Zealand. We serve a wide range of patrons- kids, retirees, families, students & tourists...

Friday Five otherwise known as "What's been Happening!"

Hello everyone - I feel like such a slacker blogger in relation to personal posts, so I'm throwing up a quick Friday Five.

1. This video's been around for a while but it gives me great joy. One, the timing of the music and the cat is PERFECT. Two, I used to have a Siamese named Skeeter who had perfected the move at the end. We called him Ninja cat as he'd fly like this cat, but vertically with all four paws out in front, when he was attacking dogs. Anyway, enjoy.


2. My edits are pretty much DON...

KEEPER OF WONDER: An Interview with Tiffany Wells

Today on the blog I'm interviewing Fancy Nancy! Kidding, but it is school librarian, Tiffany Wells, dressed as Fancy Nancy. Cute, right? Find Tiffany on Twitter at @FEBLibraryGirl (Because her kindergarteners last year called her Library Girl and the name has just stuck!) (When I was teaching the little ones, my name was "Hey Miss Art Teacher" so I totally understand!)

Tell us about your library? (Where, what, anything quirky or cool?) What's your job title and description?    ...

A Celebration with GIF's

Because, I FINISHED MY EDITS! And I'm pretty sure next stop is copy edits. So at first I was all like,

And then as excitement settled in, it was a bit of this


Followed by some of this

And then I had to say to myself

And realized that YES! I met deadline while working full time which is a big old slice of

So thanks for cheering me on friends! Now I get to read and play on the Internet and ride my ponies and go to SCBWI Carolinas this weekend to see writer friends! Whoohoo!

KEEPER OF WONDER: An Interview with Jessica Stork

Let's give a big Keeper of Wonder, hello!, to Jessica Stork. Jess is one of the librarians I hunted down on Twitter and arm wrestled into telling us her deepest darkest shelving secrets. And she agreed! You can find her on Twitter at @jessstorkwrites.

Tell us about your library? (Where, what, anything quirky or cool?) What's your job title and description? 

I work at a Public Library. Even though it's brand new, we still have comfy chairs and fireplaces that are great for curling up next t...

KEEPER OF WONDER: An Interview with Amanda Coppedge

Photo by Mark Ignatowski
I'm so pleased to welcome Amanda Coppedge Bosky to the blog today. Amanda is another Blue Boarder and Twitter pal (@amandacoppedge), who is also a librarian. And I love this sweet photo! Here's Amanda to tell us about her librarian life!

So you’re a librarian, how’d that happen?
My name is Amanda Coppedge Bosky (I write under Amanda Coppedge, I "librarian" under Amanda Bosky). My mom instilled a love of reading and the library at a young age. I was that kid who went once...

KEEPER OF WONDER: An Interview with Natalie Lorenzi

Today I'm pleased to welcome school librarian (and author), Natalie Lorenzi, to the blog (@NatalieLorenzi). My CP and friend, Kip Wilson, connected us but I realized I "knew" Natalie from the Blueboards and the small kidlit world already. So without further ado, here's Natalie!

1. So you’re a librarian, how’d that happen? I decided to become a school librarian in November of 2010, a few days after Charlesbridge offered to publish my manuscript. I’d been a classroom teacher for ten years a...

Focus on First Drafts as a Pre-Pub Author.

With my second round of edits on NO PLACE TO FALL back in the hands of my lovely editor, I'm once again in a space where I'm free to work on something else. Last spring, I started a historical MG and managed to get about 18k into it before my debut needed my attention again.

But now, with time on my hands, I'm finding it so hard to get cranked back up. #5amwritersclub has helped me. I wrote a new 2.5k this week on the MG and it felt great to pass 20k, but I feel so scattered.

For me, I work rea...