Mary Nethery!

Back in the dark ages, I went to a writing workshop led by Jane Yolen. EVERYONE there knew more than me. EVERYONE had been published. EVERYONE was confident and cool.

Or so I thought until I bumped into Mary Nethery, leaving the dining room after yet another horrible kids' camp meal. I don't know what got us talking but once we started, we never stopped. We've been each other's best cheerleaders and best critics ever since and, a few years ago, we became collaborators, writing two nonfiction p...