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Thanks to every­one who com­mented or emailed about my last post on page-turners.  The sug­ges­tions have helped, and I’m work­ing my way through the text, throw­ing out chap­ters and rear­rang­ing oth­ers.  It’s a slog, as most of you know, being mas­ter slog­gers your­selves. I do have one request, and I admit that I make it …

Des­per­ately Seek­ing A Page-Turner Primer.  If you are one or know of one, please com­ment below.Edited after read­ing the com­ments:Sub­mis­sions on SOUL TACO are going as well as they could go with­out a sale.  Edi­to­r­ial com­ment has been very pos­i­tive and com­pli­men­tary, with one edi­tor request­ing a rewrite, while three oth­ers have said that they …

I read this on david­lubar ‘s blog. It’s impor­tant enough to pass along. My other post is about the peo­ple I’m thank­ful for, but first, I’d like to say I’m thank­ful that Ritchie Part­ing­ton had the nerve to ask a prin­ci­pal to actu­ally read.  If any­one has any­more details about this case, please com­ment. QUOTE:A day …

It’s as grainy as a pic­ture of Nessie but.…

Other folks did a fan­tas­tic job of blog­ging ALAN/NCTE (yep, we’re now more impor­tant than in NCTE in my world), among them  jbknowles ‚  david­lubar  ,  pro­fes­sor­nana ‚  halse­an­der­son .  (If I missed any­one, I’ll edit this post.)  How they could take phots and update their blogs, I have no idea, and my hats are off …

The “Best YA Show on Earth” is about to begin! Two weeks and count­ing to the 2007 ALAN Work­shop in NYC, which will be held Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 19–20 at the New York Mar­riott Mar­quis Times Square, West­side Ball­room.  To view the pro­gram, which is in pdf for­mat, click here.   david­lubar  , dlgarfin­kle  , and halse­an­der­son …