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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 not­jazz 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.  …

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 …

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 pro­fes­sor­nana ) author of Mak­ing the Match and Naked Read­ing, is a renowned advo­cate of Young Adult lit­er­a­ture.  She is an active leader in ALAN, NCTE, …

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 …

My next WIP will be a thriller set in Japan. I’d like to read some thrillers to get my mind right before plot­storm­ing. Who are your favorite YA thriller writers?

Of course, this area cov­ers half the US. This guy’s no Henry Hig­gins. What Amer­i­can accent do you have? Cre­ated by Xavier on Memegen.net South­ern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you’re prob­a­bly from some­where south of the Ohio River. Take this quiz now — it’s easy! We’re going to start with “cot” and “caught.” …