Ty Cobb’s lifetime batting average is .367. In the world of agent queries, SOUL TACO, is batting a cool .500, which means that out of the twelve agents who have responded to my equeries, six have requested fulls or partials. I know better than to get excited by these early numbers. It’s still Spring training [...]
Universal Studios has announced that it’s building the world of Harry Potter in Florida. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20731
Can you imagine what it would be like to walk down streets that once existed only in your mind? To see street signs with names that you created? To be hugged by a half-giant with a carpet for a beard? Um, [...]
One of my favorite pre-school memories is cooking Jiffy-Pop on the stove. First, unwrapping the pan with the little wire hand and a swirly of aluminum foil on top. It took forever to get it to pop, but when it did, man! The popcorn forcing the foil up like metal cocoon until [...]
Please join us for an ALAN Online BookChat to discuss DEAD GIRLS DON’T WRITE LETTERS with the author, Gail Giles.
Date: Wednesday, 5/23/07
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern
URL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php
Here’s more about DEAD GIRLS DON’T WRITE LETTERS:
When Sunny Reynolds’s beautiful and [...]
Wow, it’s been two week since I posted. Time flies when you’re overwhelmed.
For awhile, I’ve been meaning to blog about Gail
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Giles’ latest, RIGHT BEHIND YOU, the dark story of a firebug who is arrested for setting his neighbor on fire. After spending most of his life in an institution, Kip is finally released. He, [...]
Any time there’s more than one main villain, the story’s going to suffer.
Wasn’t this movie Spiderman 2 with the addition of one embarrassingly long scene of PP doing a John Travolta? I kept expecting the Bee Gees to break out in song.
If I ended up dangling from a building/crane/web as often as Mary Jane Watson [...]
Catherine Balkin, Chair of the 2007 ALAN Award Committee, has announced that the ALAN Award Committee has voted to honor Teri Lesesne with the 2007 ALAN Award. Lesesne, (aka
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) author of Making the Match and Naked Reading, is a renowned advocate of Young Adult literature. She is an active leader in ALAN, NCTE, ALA, [...]
Dear ALAN Membership:
The ALAN election committee is now accepting nominations for the ALAN Board of Directors and ALAN President. When nominating please consider the following:
All candidates for the board must be members of ALAN and NCTE, and are expected to come to the ALAN Board meeting at the NCTE convention and attend the ALAN workshop [...]
