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THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY part of the Latinos in Kid Lit Reading Challenge

If you like Latinos in children’s and young adult literature (and, really, you must, right?), then you will love the Latinos in Kid Lit blog. Full of great recommendations and links to insightful reviews, it’s an excellent resource if you’re looking to add some diversity to your picture book, middle grade or young adult library. […]

Featured on Bergen County Cooperative Library Services Website

There are many things I love about living in my small New Jersey town. With just over 8,000 residents, it’s got the charm of small-town living. We have our own tiny police department (seventeen officers), an itty-bitty city hall in what looks like a converted house and a whole lot of concerned citizens that create […]

Frowny Face :-(

It’s not that I was expecting that Amazon would name my debut YA novel a “Hot New Release in Teen and Young Adult Books,” since today marks ONE WEEK until its official pub date. (Hoping, but not expecting). But it’s that Rush Limbaugh made the list with Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims today. This […]

Children’s Book Council Diversity Newsletter Interview

What do I love about having my book on the cusp of being published? Too many things to count, but definitely among them are the many wonderful people I’ve gotten to meet along the way. Case in point: Lyn Miller-Lachmann, author of Gringolandia, who today published an interview with me in the Children’s Book Council […]

Marilyn E. Anderson

When I was a teenager, IDs still were laminated pieces of paper, devoid of all the holograms and barcodes that make today’s harder to copy. Times Square was also the wild west, full of porn shops and drug dealers offering you dime bags as soon as you stepped outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Combine […]

The Giving Tree

Today I felt like The Giving Tree, and not in a good way. In case you haven’t read it, The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein, is a children’s book about a tree who gives a little boy everything. When he is little, he swings on her branches. When he gets older, he wants money so […]

A Meritocracy of Nice

I usually sit in an office. Don’t get me wrong – I am very grateful for my job. But from time to time it lacks a certain pizzazz. And for a pizzazzy woman like me, well, you know. That all changed this past week. One of my accounts bought a six-episode series of videos in […]

Rock star moment

On a flight home from Orlando to Newark International, I got the exit row seat. I signed up for it because I like the leg room. I had forgotten that the flight attendants have those little jump seats that fold down which are positioned right in front of that row. During takeoff, two flight attendants […]

Books are shipping!

I came home from a four-day business trip to find the best Amazon box I’ve ever gotten… one that was full of copies of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY. Facebook followers and friends are posting pix too… the book is definitely shipping, although it’s still technically two weeks before my release date. Really cool! I […]

Because, yes, I’m a writer

I came home from a four-day business trip and here’s what was waiting for me: 1. An Amazon box full of the five copies of my book I ordered just because. 2. A certificate and pin from the Junior Library Guild that makes it legit that my book really got selected for this prestigious honor. […]