by Rebecca | Mar 22, 2018 | adventures, Adventures in Bloggysitting, Aladdin, blog touring, book people, books, characters, guest posts, interviews, middle grade, readers/reception, Simon & Schuster, teachers are the best, The Last Grand Adventure, this is how we read it
I’ve been busy talking up Bea and Pidge’s grand adventure with fellow book lovers and Amelia enthusiasts online. Here are a few interviews to check out if you’d like to know more about the story and why I wrote it: Episode 34 of the “Chasing...
by Rebecca | Sep 23, 2015 | audrey and alice, characters, historical fiction, IRL, lifestyles of the rich and bookish, reader in chief, research, sensory overload, setting, summertime
On a warm, nearly cloudless day last week, I took a trip out to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, NY. It wasn’t my first time there–I visited in September 2012, shortly after I found out that When Audrey Met Alice was going to become a...
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 | Apr 24, 2014 | Bookanistas, books, characters, onefour kidlit, this is how we read it, Uncategorized
It’s time for another Bookanista recommendation: Maria E. Andreu’s The Secret Side of Empty. Here’s the jacket copy from the publisher: As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish...
by Rebecca | Oct 10, 2013 | authors, Bookanistas, books, characters, middle grade, mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, this is how we read it, Uncategorized
It’s time for another Bookanista recommendation: Tim Federle’s hilarious and heartfelt Better Nate Than Ever.Here’s the summary from Goodreads: Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d...
by Rebecca | Apr 1, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, authors, characters, middle grade, MMGM, nostalgia, onefour kidlit, turtle wexler ftw
First things first: I survived my move, and so did all of my books! Phew. Now if only I could find where I packed my shoes and my chargers in this mess . . . Anyway, I’m excited that today is the inaugural MG Monday post for mad for Middle Grade, a group of...
