by Rebecca | Nov 18, 2014 | conferences, eventful, I talk about food too much, IRL, lets take this show on the road, libraries, PIE, school visits, talking about writing
It’s November . . . how? It feels like yesterday that I was heading off to Vegas for ALA, or kicking back with a good book in Central Park. (And I’ve been blogging sparsely enough that if you scroll down, it appears that it was recently that I was doing...
by Rebecca | Oct 28, 2014 | audrey and alice, characters, debutanting, eventful, historical fiction, IRL, libraries, reader in chief, sensory overload, setting, White House
Last Friday, I did a young writers’ workshop at the New York Society Library, a beautiful and historic library that also happens to be my revising home-away-from-home. (Here’s a presidential-history tidbit about the NYSL: Our Founding Father George...
by Rebecca | Oct 21, 2014 | book people, eventful, feel the love, gushing, heaven aka bookstores, IRL, middle grade, onefour kidlit
Monday night, I was part of a fantastic MG panel at the Voracious Reader in Larchmont, NY, with author friends (and fellow 2014 debuts) Tara Dairman, Lauren Magaziner, Laura Marx Fitzgerald, and Michelle Schusterman. The Voracious Reader is a dream...
by Rebecca | Oct 17, 2014 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, AWESOMENESS, interviews, teachers are the best
Over the summer, Laurie Morrison, a writer and teacher, emailed me to see if I’d like to participate in her wonderful student-author interview series. Of course I did! Last month she sent me the questions from her seventh-grade girls at Friends Select School in...
by Rebecca | Oct 15, 2014 | eventful, heaven aka bookstores, historical fiction, IRL, news, Scholastic, short stories, Uncategorized
I’m taking a break from writing next week for a fun panel at The Voracious Reader in Larchmont, NY with author friends Michelle Schusterman, Laura Marx Fitzgerald, Lauren Magaziner, and Tara Dairman! There will be candy. And author dares! I’m also excited...