Last week was one of my busiest ever!!Things started in Milwaukee at Barbara Vey\’s 1st readers luncheon. I was there Monday night for her library event, and then for the Tuesday luncheon. I especially thank the lovely, hardworking WisRWA ladies who greeted everyone when they entered. I shared a table with another YA author, Erica […]
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I presented a workshop at the 2012 Illinois Reading Council in Springfield on March 15, to a room full of teachers and librarians, all interested in the subject of attracting reluctant teen boy readers. I feel i\’ve come full circle from 2008 when I attended a discussion about the same subject at the AWP (Association
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Advertisers will tell you, it\’s always easier and more cost effective to keep an existing customer than to go out and find a new one, or try recapturing a lost one. So it is with readers. No, I\’m not talking about my readers (well, yes I am, but only as a tangent) I\’m talking about
Today I\’m in Baltimore Maryland at the dazzling Romance Slam Jam conference. This conference of African American romance writers included workshops on Creating Memorable Characters by Marilyn Tyner, and Sexy Banter from the awesome writer Gwyneth Bolton, and What\’s the Hype about Romance from Denise Jeffries. I also spent time on a panel talking about my
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I came back from the YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) conference earlier this week. Rest assured, I\’ll blog about that event soon. But today I want to talk about what happened when I left. The conference ended Sunday at noon with a great keynote address from Ellen Hopkins and Lauren Myracle, two often banned YA
Here\’s my top ten – or maybe bottom ten, who knows, reasons why I\’m not going to DC for the RWA Nationals in 2009. 10 – I don\’t want people to see how crappy I am at networking. (Which is almost a pity because I have some email acquaintances this year who might even know
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