Welcome

I am David Macin­nis Gill, author of the YA nov­els Invis­i­ble Sun, Black Hole Sun, and Soul Enchi­lada, all from Greenwillow/Harper Collins. This site has info about me, my books, book trail­ers, appear­ances, and con­tact info. It’s also home to my per­sonal blog, which is an eclec­tic mix of eclec­ti­cisms that I’ve col­lected over time.  Feel free to …

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February 2, 2012 – 7:33 pm | Posted in Blog | Comments (2)

Black Hole Donut Holes

Under the Green Wil­low One of my heroes, Chris Crutcher, read­ing the paper­back of Black Hole Sun in the office of our edi­tor.  Note Crutcher’s prowess at read­ing upside down while spear­ing a donut that I’m sure some­one tossed him.

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February 2, 2012 – 6:55 pm | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Jack Gantos: Slobberific

Jack Gan­tos: Slob­berific “Some­times when you stare out the win­dow it’s like watch­ing the movies in your mind.” —Jack Gan­tos. And some­times, you make read­ers laugh so hard, they slob­ber them­selves, and while they’re laugh­ing, you sneak in a nugget of pro­fun­dity and insight that once they’ve stopped laugh­ing and cleaned them­selves up, they say, …

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January 27, 2012 – 9:54 am | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Your Voice Is Not Worth Hearing

The State of Ari­zona has passed a law mak­ing it ille­gal for schools to offer courses based on eth­nic groups. In reac­tion Tucson’s school dis­trict has not only closed the courses, but has con­fis­cated the mate­ri­als used to teach those courses.  Appar­ently, if you are a mem­ber of an eth­nic group on Ari­zona, the First Amend­ment of …

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January 26, 2012 – 8:00 am | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

HUGO Gets 11

The news out of Hol­ly­wood yes­ter­day was that HUGO pulled in 11 Oscar nom­i­na­tions, includ­ing best direc­tor, art direc­tion, cin­e­matog­ra­phy, cos­tume design, film edit­ing, orig­i­nal music score, sound edit­ing, sound mix­ing, visual effects and adapted screen­play. Beyond that fact that I’m delighted that HUGO turned out so well, that Hol­ly­wood rec­og­nized a children’s book, and …

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January 25, 2012 – 12:48 pm | Posted in Blog | Comments Off

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 Off