Humor – Chipmunk Herding

We just had a fun episode of Chipmunk Herding, with help from Miss Sophie! I knew that chipmunk was still in the house (it’s been a week!) because I heard him a couple of times yesterday. Today Miss Sophie found him. We had the doors open for him and every...

My Writing/Your Writing – Writing for the future

  My agent has two completed manuscripts that she’s going to sell. I have two more that are almost done. Even if a miracle occurred and she sold all four of them today, it’s not likely that the last one would even come out until 2011 or 2012. So I ask...

Tuesday Teen Topic – The Reading Revolution cont.

Last week I included the statistic that 58% of the US adult population never read another book after high school. This caused quite a stir. The writer, Eileen Cook, and I have been tossing ideas back and forth all week to combat this by developing our own Reading...

Author Interview – Arthur Slade

      Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Arthur Slade. I’m lucky to get this interview because Art is one of those people who actually spends a lot of time writing, not goofing off. Right, Art? Plus he does many, many school visits. If...