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Janet McDon­ald passed away on April 11, 2007. She had been stricken with can­cer for awhile.  Janet was a guest of the ALAN Work­shop in Nashville in Novem­ber, 2006, where I met her for the first time.  Janet was an attor­ney who pre­ferred to write for teens, pub­lish­ing sev­eral nov­els includ­ing HARLEM HUSTLE, BROTHER HOOD, …

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“Kurt Von­negut, the great Amer­i­can satir­i­cal nov­el­ist, died on Wednes­day at the age of 84 as a result of head injuries sus­tained in a fall at his home in New York last week.”  More

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Peeps. Another thing I do not get. Like Amer­i­can Idol and hav­ing more than two pair of shoes.

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I’m the lim­er­ick, mired in muck.I refuse to be bored or get stuck.   I like to offend,   But not, in the end,As much as to thwart expec­ta­tions. What Poetry Form Are You?

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Please join us for an ALAN Online BookChat with David Klass, author of FIRESTORM, YOU DON’T KNOW ME, and oth­ers Date: 3/28/07 Time: 9:00 PM East­ern URL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php Here’s more about FIRESTORM: “His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn’t bro­ken the high school rush­ing record that …

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Tonight, I fin­ished read­ing the let­ters of leg­endary edi­tor Ursula Nord­strom.  Prob­a­bly, I’m the last to read this book, because I’ve heard how amaz­ing it is for years.  It amazed me any­way.  As a reader, as a scholar, as a reviewer, and as a writer, I learned so much about the evo­lu­tion of children’s pub­lish­ing …

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