I mean, Wheaties has a tagline. I wanted one, too.

Join me as I talk about the process of writing fiction for middle grades, teens and young adults. Friday, December 15, 2017. And check out my book, Cloning Miranda. Thursday, January 19, 2017.

Monday, March 19, 2018. A rare, fatal, genetic disease that will cause Taylor to go blind, suffer seizures, and lose the ability to walk and talk. I was 16 when Taylor was born.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. To Look a Nazi in the Eye. Kathy Kacer with Jordana Lebowitz, Authors. Second Story Press, Nonfiction, Sep. Oskar Groening, WWII War Crimes, Trial, Holocaust, Justice. Why I like this book. Kathy Kacer sensitively weaves a format for this compelling and dramatic nonfiction narrative that reads like a story.

Welcome Sarah and Seth Entin.

Thursday, January 18, 2018. CALKINS CREEK BOOKS, a Highlights Company. Makes me downright jealous! Starters, check out that cover. So simple in mostly red with the ominous newspaper background. So cold with falling snow and maybe a touch of fear.

Sunday, July 19, 2015. Blue Birds - Review and Giveaway. 8220;The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. Adventures in YA Publishing has a terrific post HERE. On making any scene more interesting. KM Weiland has a terrific post HERE. About writing a good character arc. This week I will review Blue Birds.

The Wren and the Sparrow. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg. 32 pages, Kar-Ben, 2015. In this self-professed fable, an old man called the Wren plays his hurdy-gurdy for the last time, and with the help of his student, Sparrow, inspires a small Polish town during the dark times.