October 14-15, 2009:

I am feeling a  bit frantic, a bit fraught. Too many bits and pieces, not enough time before book tour/conference season begins. This means I work on small things in a small way as well as big things in a small way. However, it is the method I have always used until (as Constant Readers of this Journal know) a single piece simply overtakes me and everything else gets set aside.

Specifically, I revised two more times the retold folktale SISTER BEAR and sent it back to the editor. I began...