Going to look through today’s About My Query post paragraph by paragraph again, although I will put all my comments below, so your experience of reading the query isn’t interrupted by my thoughts. Lots more cutting and pasting to do, but you also get my more immediate thoughts, rather than those filtered by a longer [...]
Continuing the fascinating conversation from yesterday, I want to talk Bad Guys. (Like Spike over there. Swoon.) And despite my choice of image for this post, not lovable bad guys, but the truly evil, the really horrible, and the must-be-vanquished. If I were to continue to cite only examples from Buffy, I’d be talking about [...]
As I do regularly, I was trolling the blogosphere and came across this review of Matthew Cody‘s Powerless. I can’t argue with her praise, but I do want to especially point out this bit at the end: This is one of those great debates in children’s literature: should the bad guy be really and truly [...]
Thanks to Robin Wasserman, whose fantastic blog post clued me in that today is Teacher Appreciation Day! Goooooooo teachers! Like Robin, I had some amazing teachers in my life who supported me in my love of books (except for Sister Nancy, who tried to get me to stop reading at lunchtime in the grammar school [...]
I’m thrilled to share the latest news for kt literary client (and former Band Geek) Josie Bloss. From Publishers Marketplace: Author of ALBATROSS and BAND GEEK LOVE, Josie Bloss’s FAKING FAITH, about a teen shunned for a “sexting” incident who fakes her identity to fit in online with a community of ultra-conservative homeschooled teenage girls, [...]
