Suzanne – Page 18 – Suzanne Warr

Have you tried reading Wrede?

22JuneSuzanne9 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I had a really hard timeÂ making up my mind which of Patricia Wrede‘s middle grades to feature, so while I I’m going to spotlight just one series today, I’ve promised myself I’ll return to the other favorite another day one week soon. Â So, heads up on that!Â 😀 These books suffer from what I call the

Out of the dust…or sand, as the case may be.

20JuneSuzanne2 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

You’ll never guess my inspiration for today’s flash piece. 😉 I stepped back, and stared at the sand castle I’d just shaped. Â Where had that come from? Â It was…not remotely what I expected when I agreed to enter Aunt Genna’s contest. The draped towels behind me rippled as Starla shook them. Â “Come on, Tammy, hurry

Wabi: a Hero’s Tale

15JuneSuzanne8 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

My discovery of Wabi was a happy accident, as I came upon it while prowling the shelves looking for something different. Â The thing I’ve noticed about myself, when I go prowling in this way, is I’m harder to please once I pick a book up because I’m too restless to settle down with most stories.

How to Cook Your Father in 10 Easy Steps

13JuneSuzanne2 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

This week’s prompt was ‘a cooking disaster,’ but with me those hardly feel like fiction–as witness the ‘oops, I just preheated the oven without realizing I’d left a loaf of bread in there two days ago’ blackened pumpkin bread I pulled out yesterday. Â I’m not a bad cook, but I can be absentminded, and that

What would life be like if you were a prince AND a pauper?

8JuneSuzanne16 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

You know it’s a good book when you no sooner finish it than you start reading it again. Â That’s what happened when I read Jennifer Nielsen’sÂ fantastic middle grade, The False Prince. Now, the tricky part of recommending this book is dodging the rotten oranges that could follow. Â That’s because you’ll notice, if you look around

What does it take to get you out of bed?

6JuneSuzanne2 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

It’s funny, last month when I turned the calender over to show May I groaned, as it seemed every square was already triple-booked. Â This month, June doesn’t look so bad…but what’s not on there is all the stuff that got pushed off from May onto June, plus the good things (like new writing projects and

What are your RULES?

2JuneSuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I loved Cynthia Lord‘s Rules, and honestly feel we could all do with a few rules, plus the compassion to know the rules aren’t where life is really lived. Â This book is great for both of those, and shows the struggle between compassion and peer pressure that’s so common when dealing with someone a bit

Paradise…waiting

30MaySuzanne8 CommentsFlash Friday, Home in the Rookery, Writing

Me, my paradise is a lovely little two bedroom place on Hilton Head Island, that’s built over and around the wetlands, with trees growing up through the boardwalk and a beach waiting for you to collapse onto. We’ve still got weeks to go before we get there…but I can almost taste the salt breeze, and

Happy Memorial Day!

26MaySuzanne5 CommentsHome in the Rookery

I focus a lot on the many great books which get written and read, and books are super important to me. Â But there were stories before there were books, both in human history and in my own life. Â Some of those stories are written on our hearts and never spoken aloud. Â Some get tucked away

Find a penny, pick it up…

23MaySuzanne6 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

Do you believe in luck? Â And if so, how much do you believe? Â Me, I’m a rational person with a scientific mind and a tendency to contingency plan everything until the outcome is a forgone conclusion. Â Until things start to go wrong, of course, and then I cross my fingers and knock on wood. Â But,

Suzanne Warr

Narrative designer, game designer, author

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