Thursday’s Animal Essay – Cat Wrasslin

by | Mar 6, 2008 | Daily Writings

When we lived in our old house, the cats roamed free and wild. Around dusk, you might catch one of them chasing the other, but that was about it. Here, they also are free to go, but they’ve turned into a couple of chickens and won’t go outside for more...

A Cat Wrasslin Photo Essay

by | Mar 6, 2008 | Uncategorized

In this corner, weighing in at ten pounds two ounces, The Orange Menace! Known for his extra toes and shortage of wits, this fighter is capable of squishing opponents noses with one smack of his enormous paw. He’s also capable of sustaining injury and fighting...

Because you told me to…continued –

by | Mar 5, 2008 | Uncategorized

Because I think of all this reading as not simply fun, but learning about what I want to write too, I tend to look for YAs mostly in my genre. I choose books with appealing covers, by publishers I like, by authors I’ve read before, fairly recent publication...

Because you told me to…

by | Mar 4, 2008 | Daily Writings

As you probably know if you stop by here regularly, I read a lot. More when I’m taking a break from writing, but generally I devour around 150+ MG & YA books a year (plus a few nonfiction and adult titles). That’s an average of 2.88 books per week....

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (MG)

by | Mar 3, 2008 | Need to Read

Lisa Greenwald on The Longstockings blog, mentioned this book the other day. Read it in one sitting. Found it charming, funny, and chock full of really well drawn characters and just lovely. Add it to your list! I know, I know, I’m giving you so much to read. I...