love, cajun style cont.

It is a very sweet book, published in 1965, and a Newbery Honor Book. I had it in my pile of books to read before I moved, but it ended up being the “on the road book”. Every night in the hotel, my husband would gently remove it from my hands after...

FROGS AND FRENCH KISSES cont.

Anyway, this is a seriously funny book with a bit of a twist to it. The main character has no magical powers of her own, but both her younger sister and her mother are witches. She’s very engaging and likable and except for one annoying thing, I really liked...

Gimmicks vs. Originality – cont.

It is now the YA that I finished the other day, and there’s not any element of scrapbook in it. It’s just a straight-forward narrative. I don’t think I was really going for a gimmick or trying to be original. I had always wanted to write something...

Gimmicks vs. Originality

Four years ago, I began to write a YA that I intended to be something like Griffin & Sabine. In other words, tangible, colorful, unique, with letters you could physically remove from envelopes. I had an idea of putting together a scrapbook of a girl’s senior...