by Rebecca | May 25, 2015 | audrey and alice, authors, eventful, heaven aka bookstores, lets take this show on the road, libraries, news, onefour kidlit
I’m emerging from some kind of author hibernation with two events this week. I’d love to see you there! Wednesday, May 27: I’ll be part of a fantastic panel at One More Page in Arlington, VA with author friends Tara Dairman and Jen Malone. The fun...
by Rebecca | Apr 26, 2015 | audrey and alice, authors, battle of the books, contests and giveaways, eventful, heaven aka bookstores, IRL, lets take this show on the road, libraries, news, paperback, swag, teachers are the best, treat this post as evidence of procrastination, Uncategorized
How is it almost May? Somehow this winter seemed both endless (thanks, snowstorms) and super short. Anyway, I’m enjoying the tulips popping up on NYC sidewalks and planning trips to WI this summer. What else is new? Bookplates! The lovely Kristin Rae (whose YA...
by Rebecca | Nov 24, 2014 | audience, audrey and alice, AWESOMENESS, eventful, gratitude, IRL, lets take this show on the road, school visits, talking about writing, teachers are the best
Last week, I had a great time visiting St. Francis Academy in Union City, NJ. I talked with the fifth- and sixth-grade students about historical fiction, life in the White House, the writing process, and more. I was blown away by their insightful and interesting...
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...
