Although I don’t make New Year’s resolutions myself, I’m aware that many people do. Okay, for all you readers out there who are resolution-makers, I have a suggestion for you: How about resolving to broaden the scope of your reading in 2017?
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I Still Believe. Don’t You?
So there I was, doing something very familiar: reading one of my picturebooks to a classroom full of first-graders enrolled in an after-school program. It being close to Christmas, the book I was reading was suitably seasonal—one I had written, of course, although out of another publishing house, not Roundtable. When I had finished reading...
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For Their Reading Pleasure
Still making out your Christmas shopping list? Having trouble deciding what to get some of the people you need to buy presents for? Not surprisingly, as a writer, I advocate giving books. With books, there’s no worrying about guessing wrong at size or, worse, insulting someone by buying a Large for a person who wears...
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A Writer’s Christmas List
I’ve been good this year, so I know I’m not on your “naughty” list. We don’t have a chimney, but you can do as our UPS driver does and leave my presents at the front door, then knock loudly so I know to check and see what’s waiting for me.
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Where Do We Writers Get Our Ideas?
A writer I admire and enjoy reading the books of, Mary Roach, wrote in her book MY PLANET, “You get crumbs in the bed and steal my blankets. I still want the divorce.” It was a throwaway line in an otherwise-oriented chapter.