by Rebecca | Mar 19, 2016 | Aladdin, books, everyone's a critic, news, rare Saturday post alert, readers/reception, Simon & Schuster, Summer of Lost and Found
It often feels like forever until a book comes out (thanks to all those hours spent writing, revising, and revising, and revising). And then suddenly the book’s first trade review arrives and, whoa! You realize publication is only two months away. I’m...
by Rebecca | Oct 31, 2015 | AASL, Aladdin, conferences, DRCs, eventful, I talk about food too much, IRL, it has come to this a post about soup, lets take this show on the road, libraries, middle grade, pumpkin addict, rare Saturday post alert, Simon & Schuster, Summer of Lost and Found
Happy Halloween! Fall has been flying by. I’ve been busy with revising a new project (which feels like it might finally be coming together), working on a short story, and copy edits. Apologies to my production editor, but I did end up making quite a few tweaks...
by Rebecca | May 16, 2015 | audrey and alice, book clubs, rare Saturday post alert, Sourcebooks, this is how we read it
My mom and I have been discussing books since I was a kid–not surprising, considering I have always been a reader and she is a former English/Language Arts teacher. Over the years, reading together has helped us understand our own relationship better, see each...
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...