by Joelle | Jul 12, 2007 | Need to Read
Say what you will, I love the Princess Diaries books. The only thing I don’t like about them is I read them so fast and then just as I’m getting into it, it’s over and I have to wait a year or whatever for the next one. Yeah, they’re all the...
by Joelle | Jul 12, 2007 | Daily Writings
By mini-break I do not mean a weekend getaway like Bridget Jones takes in her books…I mean I have washed enough of the paint off my hands from remodeling my kitchen to type a rant. Here is my rant… Yahoo now has a spell check feature. Like Word, it...
by Joelle | Jun 30, 2007 | Need to Read
Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined A mysterious man tears a small town apart with his seductive new religion. I started a few other books since I last posted, but none of them grabbed me, including that other one in verse that shall remain unnamed here. However,...
by Joelle | Jun 29, 2007 | Daily Writings
Hi, All. Well, I was going to start this on Monday, but I just realized I forgot to post today anyway, so I may as well start now. I am taking a break from this blog until the end of July. No, not a vacation. A vacation would involve beaches, waiters bringing me...
by Joelle | Jun 28, 2007 | Daily Writings
I decided to take the day off since my pal, Arthur Slade wrote a humorous animal story this week and it was hilarious. Enjoy! See you tomorrow with a new author interview or profile (haven’t decided yet). And don’t forget to enter to win free...
by Joelle | Jun 27, 2007 | Daily Writings
I am doing my favorite part…revision. Last week I finished my new YA. Usually I can’t wait to jump into the revision, but this time I just let it sit for a week or so. I started to worry that maybe I wasn’t excited about it or something, but when I...
by Joelle | Jun 26, 2007 | Daily Writings
Are you joining a summer reading program at your local library? I was checking some out across the country and found some interesting stuff. At the Multnomah County Library, in Portland, OR, you can not only participate, but volunteer to help. Sounds like fun to me....
by Joelle | Jun 25, 2007 | Daily Writings
As always, free books here.
by Joelle | Jun 25, 2007 | Need to Read
I loved this book. I knew I would because I also loved his book FRAMED. It’s impossible to read this book without being amazed at the sheer knowledge he packs into it without being boring! In FRAMED, he gave the reader a wonderful art education. In this one, you...
by Joelle | Jun 22, 2007 | Daily Writings
Kathy Erskine’s YA novel, QUAKING, was released yesterday, so run out and get your copy today! Also, one of Kathy’s friends, Anne Marie Pace, is giving away a signed copy of QUAKING, so drop in and visit her live journal to enter (through today only). Just...
by Joelle | Jun 20, 2007 | Need to Read
I am still alive, but actually, I have been in a hole. A Harry Potter hole. I somehow didn’t get HP #5 on CD, so I read that one. Then I listened to all of #6 except the climax because for some reason, I was missing those chapters on my iPod! It was all good...
by Joelle | Jun 20, 2007 | Daily Writings
I love to write. No, I mean it. I really, really love to write. Last fall, I thought, “Gosh…I’m soooo tired all the time. My brain is kind of fuzzy too.” After contemplating it, I figured out what was wrong. I hadn’t had a day off four...
by Joelle | Jun 19, 2007 | Daily Writings
My parents did things differently. My dad had worked from the time he could deliver papers and my mother tells of picking beans as a kid. For that reason, they let me be a total slacker every summer while I was still in school (and actually even the summer after I...
by Joelle | Jun 18, 2007 | Daily Writings
As always, free books here.
by Joelle | Jun 15, 2007 | Daily Writings
Please excuse Joelle Anthony from her usually scheduled Author Interview/Profile as she has a headache and wants to use her limited computer time for writing. Check in next week for more fun and games including a Friday interview with writer, Kathy Erskine.
by Joelle | Jun 14, 2007 | Daily Writings
I know Miss Sophie is taking over my Animal Humor Column, but she’s just so darn cute. And funny. And generous with her catches. The other night she was shuffling around under the bed (we sleep on the porch) and then we heard crunch, munch, slurp. That’s...
by Joelle | Jun 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
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...
by Joelle | Jun 13, 2007 | Daily Writings
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...
by Joelle | Jun 12, 2007 | Daily Writings
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...
by Joelle | Jun 11, 2007 | Daily Writings
As always, free books here.
by Joelle | Jun 8, 2007 | Daily Writings
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...
by Joelle | Jun 7, 2007 | Daily Writings
Don’t let the photo of our kitty, Miss Sophie, fool you. She is one tricky cat and she likes to amuse herself at our expense. Miss Sophie suffers from seizures (not the funny part of this story) and so earlier this year, the vet put her on phenobarbital, which...
by Joelle | Jun 6, 2007 | Daily Writings
On Tuesday I wrote 13 new pages. Now if you’re a reader and not a writer, you might think, “Yeah, so what?” but if you write, you know that that’s a phenomenal writing day for most writers. Yesterday, I wrote nothing. What happened? Did I use...
by Joelle | Jun 5, 2007 | Daily Writings
58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. I stole this statistic from Eileen Cook’s website. Appalling, isn’t it? Not the stealing, the statistic. It gets worse! Drop by and see her post on the Reading Revolution...
by Joelle | Jun 4, 2007 | Daily Writings
Here’s what’s on offer: BETSY AND TACY GO OVER THE BIG HILL – by Maud Hart Lovelace THE MIDWIFE’S APPRENTICE – by Karen Cushman (MG) JACOB HAVE I LOVED – by Katherine Patterson (it’s an old beat-up copy, but what the heck? It’s...
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