by Rebecca | Oct 9, 2012 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, AWESOMENESS, gratitude, happy happy joy joy, I'm bringing Balki back, middle grade, watch out I'm getting all verklempt, writing
From Publisher’s Marketplace today: Click to read, or see below: Rebecca Behrens’s debut WHEN AUDREY MET ALICE, featuring the thirteen-year-old First Daughter who finds Alice Roosevelt’s secret diary hidden beneath the floorboards of the White...
by Rebecca | Aug 2, 2012 | AWESOMENESS, feel the love, happy happy joy joy, IRL, off topic, please excuse the jet lag, watch out I'm getting all verklempt
How I spent last month: living out of a suitcase.* I made it through 9 flights and 26 hours in the air! I currently have no idea what time zone my body thinks I’m in, but I can assure you that it’s not EST. All that travel was so worth it:I made friends...
by Rebecca | Jun 8, 2012 | authors, AWESOMENESS, BEA booty, book publishing, characters, middle grade, talking about writing
Thursday was my lucky day, and I got to pop by BEA to spend a couple hours on the floor. I timed it so I could check out a panel: “Writing Strong Female Characters In Middle Grade Books” with Lauren Oliver, Sharon Creech(!),* Judith Viorst, and Shannon...
by Rebecca | Aug 8, 2011 | AWESOMENESS, books, caffeine the nectar of the gods, libraries, warm fuzzy
I’m in love with Little Free Libraries–a grassroots effort to promote literacy and community. I’m also proud that it’s from my home state (and that my hometown is the one place where you can pop in a shop and buy a prefab Little Free...
by Rebecca | Jul 11, 2011 | AWESOMENESS, books, confessions, in which I embarrass myself, What I'm Reading Right Now
You might know that I am a fearful flier; in fact, you probably know it because one of the ways I “deal” with my fear is by blabbing to everyone I come into contact with about how freaked out I get about planes. Before a flight, I might talk about my...
