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Interview (and Giveaway!) with the superb Sandy Brehl

28AprilSuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

If you read my spotlight on Odin’s Promise last week, you’ll have noticed that I’ve fallen in love with this book. Â The reason–aside from its obvious stellar qualities–is that it always feels wonderful to be able to identify and champion something great before it’s well known and everyone else has learned of it already. Â Since

Stormy Friendship

25AprilSuzanne5 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

A not in the least biographical piece. Â If only because I haven’t got the power… 😉 I kicked the cloud in front of me, sending it rolling across the sky and leaving it bruised and stormy–just like I felt. Â Without waiting for it to stop, I stomped through another cluster of clouds, scattering them like

Spotlight on Odin’s Promise–and a promise of a giveaway!

21AprilSuzanne31 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I almost hate to use the word ‘historical’ to describe Odin’s Promise because I think there’s an idea, sneaking around somewhere in the back of our brains, that ‘historical’ also means boring, dry, and maybe dated. This is ridiculous, of course. At least, it should be to anyone who loved the Little House on the

Spring Break(fast)

18AprilSuzanne9 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

This was almost–almost–a Flash Fraterday post, but here I am and better late than never, right? Â It’s been a busy week around the blogosphere for me, with my first post going up on the Mommy Authors group blog I’m participating in. Â You’ll find that here, and it’s a discussion of the symbolism of hands and

The healing power of Savvy

14AprilSuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

It felt appropriate for me to spotlight Ingrid Law‘s Savvy now, because for me the reading of this beautiful book will always be linked with my sobbing through the story several years ago, as I healed from losing my brother in a car accident. Â Since the 15th of this month (yes, I know…crazy anniversary, eh?)

In case the Zombies come digging…

11AprilSuzanne12 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

Today’s Flash Friday blog hop is sponsored by this week’s celebration of Writing Your Epitaph–which I’ll bet you’ve been thinking about all week, cause it’s such a big holiday and all. Â Yes? Â No? Â Well, in case you find this as fascinating as I do, here’s an interesting bit of info on decoding gravestones–both their shape

Stranded…who would you want with you?

7AprilSuzanne16 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

How well would you share your island if you didn’t really like who you were sharing it with? Â That’s the underlying question I picked out of Chris Tebbetts and Jeff Probst book, Stranded. The four kids who find themselves stranded on an island in the South Pacific would almost certainly NOT have picked each other!

The Oatmeal Storm

4AprilSuzanne4 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

I must have gone to sleep last night thinking of the tornados my friends and family in St. Louis are dodging, and the hurricane season that’s just heating up. Â Given the ice storms (and blizzards) we all just weathered, it can seem a bit like nature is out to get us. Â And wouldn’t it be

Spotlight on Hatchet…and what it means to survive.

31MarchSuzanne7 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I’ve been doing survival research of late, and especially enjoyed tapping into the psychological impact of people thrust into a natural disaster or emergency situation. Â And since everything in research should be sprinkled with a bit of fiction love if it possibly can, that meant re-reading Hatchet and also diving into Stranded, which I’ll discuss

What would a modern day Mars look like?

28MarchSuzanne2 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

Anyone who’s read the Percy Jackson books will remember Ares, the bullying biker god of war. Â All well and good, but I think if Mars were walking down the streets of New York, he’d be a little less obvious and a lot more effective if he took a different form. Â After all, some of the

Suzanne Warr

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