by Rebecca | Aug 27, 2020 | adventures, Alone in the Woods, book publishing, books, everyone's a critic, feel the love, middle grade, news, readers/reception, reviews, SLJ, Sourcebooks, survival stories
Trade reviews for Alone in the Woods have started rolling in, and I’m excited to share what these critics from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal have to say about the girls’ Northwoods adventure: Brisk, compelling, relatable, and dangerous–those...
by Rebecca | Mar 26, 2020 | adventures, book clubs, eReading, eventful, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, news, readers/reception, Sourcebooks, survival stories, talking about writing, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it, verisimilitude, What I'm Reading Right Now
The scariest thing about writing The Disaster Days was realizing how the heightened scenario I put my characters in–which really felt like capital-F Fiction when I started working on the book, despite all that research–was, actually, pretty realistic....
by Rebecca | Dec 30, 2019 | adventures, authors, book people, books, eventful, heaven aka bookstores, In Case of Emergency, IRL, lets take this show on the road, libraries, middle grade, readers/reception, school visits, Sourcebooks, survival stories, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, tours, wrap ups
Author friend Michelle Schusterman and I had a fantastic time visiting schools and bookstores in the Dallas area this November: Lamar Middle School in Flower Mound; Bowie, Crockett, Lady Bird Johnson, and Lamar Middle Schools in Irving; Barnes & Noble Southlake;...
by Rebecca | Oct 21, 2019 | books, fiction lessons, In Case of Emergency, readers/reception, resources, Sourcebooks, survival stories, talking about writing, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it
The Disaster Days may be fiction, but natural disasters–like the major earthquake Hannah, Zoe, and Oscar experience–are sadly real. Young readers might have a lot of questions, and some concerns, after reading their story, so I’ve put together a few...
by Rebecca | Oct 16, 2019 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, blog touring, book people, everyone's a critic, gratitude, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, readers/reception, reviews, Sourcebooks, survival stories, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it, warm fuzzy, wrap ups
The Disaster Days has been making its way around the blogosphere and Bookstagram, and I’m so grateful to the reviewers, bloggers, and bookstagrammers who’ve taken the time to read and then write such thoughtful reviews! “Really, really enjoyed...
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...
