The 2012 book banning in Tucson schools (by ThreeSonorans)

The 2012 book ban­ning in Tuc­son schools (by ThreeSonorans)

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January 25, 2012 – 12:04 pm | Posted in Blog | Comments (0)

My younger locust is a hockey goalie, both ice and roller. Here’s her latest tournament.

My younger locust is a hockey goalie, both ice and roller. Here’s her lat­est tournament.

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January 24, 2012 – 5:41 pm | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Bringing the Funny to the Medal Round

Almost as much as Rod­ney Dan­ger­field is quoted for his “No respect” catch­phrase, Edmund Kean,* the famous Shake­spearean actor, is often quoted as say­ing on his deathbed, “Dying is easy; com­edy is hard.” **  Our finest actors are those who can play com­edy, which requires more sub­tly and finesse than dra­matic act­ing. The same is true of writ­ing.  It’s easy to …

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January 24, 2012 – 10:06 am | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

What is tumblr for, anyway?

Good ques­tion. I’m still try­ing tot fig­ure it out.

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January 23, 2012 – 3:56 pm | Posted in Blog | Comments (3)

My NCTE/ALAN Schedule

I will be sign­ing ARCs of Invis­i­ble Sun and copies of Black Hole Sun from 1–2:00 PM on Sat­ur­day, Nov 19  in the NCTE exhibit hall.  I’ll have cool book­marks as well, so come on by and say hi!  Also, on Mon­day, 11/21, I will be mod­er­at­ing the ALAN panel“Titles that Chal­lenge and are Challenged.”

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November 17, 2011 – 10:23 pm | Posted in Events | Comments Off

DPL BookTalk: INTERVIEW WITH MARY E. PEARSON, YA AUTHOR

DPL Book­Talk: INTERVIEW WITH MARY E. PEARSON, YA AUTHOR. We have a spe­cial guest with us today at DPL Book­Talk, Young Adult author Mary E. Pear­son.    Mary’s newest book is The Fox Inher­i­tance, which was released at the end of August.

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September 20, 2011 – 10:55 pm | Posted in Blog | Comments Off

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

My key­board

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September 19, 2011 – 10:36 am | Posted in Blog | Comments Off