A Special Halloween Author Interveiw with Wendie Old

Author, Wendie Old, lives in a colonial era stone farmhouse with her husband, two cats, a huge hairy dog, and has adopted her grandkid — with his and hers and hers computers. Her new book THE HALLOWEEN BOOK OF FACTS AND FUN is available in bookstores now. Visit...

Working around a mess…

No, I’m not talking about a messy manuscript. I’m talking about the mess my office is. The thing is, the old me would’ve said, “Okay…no writing until everything is unpacked and in place.” but the new me says, “No cleaning...

And she’s off!

Well, not quite off and running today, but starting tomorrow I will be jumping back into the writing fray after nearly three months off. I have a Work In Progress that’s about eighty percent done. It is now a sequel to a book that I wrote last spring, so it...

Changes…

Hi. I’ve made some changes to Need To Read. I’ve moved the actual blog back to my Live Journal where the archives work better. Also, I’ve put up a big list of Young Adult books that I like under the Need To Read tab here on the website, plus...

Regularly Updated List

Hi, All. A friend asked me to compile a list of contemporary YA fiction for a fourteen year old girl. Below is what I ended up with and I’m going to leave it up here, and add updates to it occasionally. Feel free to add titles to the comment section. This will...