by Rebecca | Feb 4, 2015 | audrey and alice, book publishing, debutanting, deepthoughts, gratitude, heaven aka bookstores, libraries, mildly maudlin, school visits, teachers are the best, Uncategorized
My mom sent me this photo over the weekend of When Audrey Met Alice still on a B&N shelf, and I realized that it was a year ago that I first saw my book in a store. Today’s the actual anniversary of my pub date, 2/4/2014. It’s been a whole year! And if...
by Rebecca | Jan 24, 2015 | AWESOMENESS, deepthoughts, easily startled, Egmont, happy happy joy joy, IRL, middle grade, mildly maudlin, off topic, random, rare Saturday post alert, Summer of Lost and Found, Uncategorized
A lot went on in publishing this week,* but this post isn’t about that. Because the week before, I did something that middle-grade me would’ve been over the moon about: I met a manatee. I first read about manatees in a random Sleepover Friends super...
by Rebecca | Jun 23, 2014 | deepthoughts, fiction lessons, gratitude, IRL, Lyleish, mildly maudlin, patience, watch out I'm getting all verklempt
So last week my laptop bit the dust. It wasn’t totally unexpected–it was 7 years old(!) and had been acting funny for a while, so I knew its time was almost up. I shifted from backing up my work regularly to backing up my work obsessively, which was good...
by Rebecca | Feb 19, 2014 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, debutanting, gratitude, mildly maudlin, party time, this is how we read it, treat this post as evidence of procrastination, Uncategorized, what's up wednesday
What I’m Reading I sped through the great historical-fiction middle grade Esperanza Rising and lingered in Alice Munro’s Dear Life. Her stories are fantastic–sharp and poignant. Now I’m starting Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior. I love her...
by Rebecca | Jan 30, 2014 | audrey and alice, AWESOMENESS, books, debutanting, feel the love, happy happy joy joy, mildly maudlin, Sourcebooks, Uncategorized, watch out I'm getting all verklempt
Last night, I got home to a big box on my doorstep. Sent from Sourcebooks c/o RR Donnelly, so I had an inkling what was inside. (Photo taken after I’d gone inside and grabbed a camera, and almost locked myself out in my excitement.) (Please ignore the other...
by Rebecca | Jan 5, 2014 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, balancing act, busting up rocks, confessions, debutanting, deepthoughts, flexibility, goals, gratitude, IRL, mildly maudlin, mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, one word, overly long posts, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, social media for the shy, Uncategorized
Last year, my word for 2013 was balance. While I do think that having that word at the forefront of my mind helped me take at least a few steps toward a more balanced life, I still have a lot of work to do with that word. But 2014 is a new year, so I needed a new...
