Happy Book Birthday to Ellen Booraem and RIVER MAGIC! RIVER MAGIC introduces Donna Landon, a feisty Maine girl who’s talented with her hands but not in the classroom. Grieving the death of her beloved aunt, Donna’s having trouble making her life work—even her best friend seems to have moved on. […]
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Today, I have the privilege of speaking with two of our Powerhouse Middle Grade authors, Ellen Booraem and Deva Fagan. These women are both from Maine and they both write beautiful, sharp, emotionally resonant Middle Grade fantasy. We talk about writing, magic, LARPing, and puppers. We also talk about promoting […]
I’m delighted to share another true love story, this one about art and love, and, eventually, inspiration. Ellen Booraem is the author of The Unnameables, Small Persons with Wings, and Texting the Underworld, which Publishers Weekly called “Affecting, funny, and provocative”. Enjoy! In December 1979, a young artist in Newton […]
I always love following the Throwback Thursday hashtag on Twitter or Facebook, and today, I thought I’d play along with my own bookish version! To the left, below, the original hardcover edition of The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem. To the right, the current paperback edition! Which do you prefer?
Well, not hens so much as ravens. Sort of. In Ellen Booraem’s Texting the Underworld, they’re just called The Birds: There they were, the three Birds perched on a roost thirty feet away. They were huge, almost as tall as Conor, plump and glossy, with cruelly curved bills. The bird […]
After two weeks off for the holidays, it always takes a while to get back up to speed. Add on top of that almost five months of being closed to queries, and I’m finding it a fun challenge to remember how to do my job sometimes! Anyway, Renee and I […]
This might be my last blog post for a while, unless I have some more exciting news to share (hint, hint, I do!), but I couldn’t let the official pub week of TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD by Ellen Booarem go by without celebrating! If you follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, […]
Congratulations are due, once again, to Ellen Booraem! Small Person With Wings lands on yet another “Best Children’s Books of 2011” list, this time with thanks to the lovely folks at Kirkus Reviews! They linked once again to the full, starred review: Whatever you do, don’t call them fairies. They […]