Today, Boni Ashburn (author of Hush, Little Dragon) blogged about “Great Gifts for Word Lovers”. She lists some terrific books for anyone who loves words, and I imagine most writers out there are word-addicts, as I am! Picture book writers, especially, are always looking for The Perfect Word. I’m joined at the spine to my [...]

Honestly, I was planning to see the movie.

I mean, who knows? Sometimes the movie is even better than the book, or at least wonderful in its own way. The Wizard of Oz certainly holds its own. I like Disney’s Pinocchio. So I was going to give Where The Wild Things Are a chance, when it’s [...]

Reporting on the Hudson Book Festival in the post below got me thinking about the value of events like it for us, the authors. Beyond the obvious…
During my many years of doggedly working toward becoming published, I was, among other things, a Book Fair Mom. Helping to run and engineer a school book fair was [...]

Alice, Cat and I were so impressed with the first-ever Hudson Book Festival last month, in Hudson, NY. We were among over 50 authors and illustrators of children’s books, with over 4000 visitors attending. All three of us chatted with our readers, signed books, and presented workshops during the day.

Alice spent much of her [...]

Join A.C.E. Bauer, Deborah Freedman, Kathleen Kudlinski, Cat Urbain and 50 other children’s and young adult authors at the Hudson Children’s Book Festival on Saturday, May 16th from 10:00 until 4:00 p.m. There will be hundreds of books to browse, author & illustrator presentations, arts & crafts, cooking, workshops, and food. At the Hudson Middle [...]