I’ve only got a couple days till the NYC trip and SCBWI national conference, but I finished the Prince Robin novel a day or two early (yay!) so had to share a quick shout out. After the conference I want to share notes and news, but suspect that won’t happen till after I’ve been back
I can’t believe it’s been since April of last year since I posted! I’ve thought through posts in my head so many times it felt like I was still here…somewhere. It’s good to connect again now! I want to share what I’m working on for this coming year and ask for your help with one
What a ride! This past week was ECGC (which really is the east coast’s biggest game conference, I’m told) and it was an amazing time. My game–Shell Break–is still up on itch.io where you can play it free, but I’m going to focus this post more on what I’m learning that applies to authoring, and
The best of all kitties (because we all know there can be more than one best kitty) has left this life. With typical Apricot self possession, she was perfectly healthy and happy right up until her last day. This made her sudden rapid decent pretty awful for me and the family, but I’m so grateful
By this time of year and what with all the pandemic stress, I think we could all use a pick-me-up! Here you’re getting a two-for-one special–a smile to counteract any holiday stress, and a mini update on how this whole train-an-author-in-game-design thing is going. I’m still having a jolly good time with it and particularly
I have joyful news! For the past year plus–since before the pandemic–I have been striving and struggling to at long last write the kind of book I always new I had in me. This week I finished the last of the edits on that manuscript, and sent my beautiful new book off to my agent.
When I chose to step away from regular middle grade spotlights a year ago I really–honestly–intended to still be a regular around this place! But as we all know, this past year didn’t go according to plan. And…that’s an understatement. The ugliness of our country’s exposed systemic racism has wrung my heart and I’ve grieved
I shared this post on Facebook, where somewhere around half of my friends are from Utah or grew up there, but I invite my blog readers to read this as well since I know the problem of racism is by no means limited to Utah, or any other region. Since this began life on FB