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Flash Friday: Hungering for Black Friday Reality TV

29NovemberSuzanne13 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

Hello, folks. Â This is John with KUTV and we’re here to interview a young lady who hopes to be the next reality star of ‘So You Think You Can Shop.’ Â Say Hello, Kierstie. Camera pans to teen girl with pixie blonde hair, dressed in jeggings, running shoes, and a tunic top. “Um, Hi,” Kierstie says,

To Boldly Go Where You Scarce Dare To Go

27NovemberSuzanne7 CommentsTween the Weekend, Writing

Writing is challenging enough–sharing your writing with others can be enough to turn a bold, confident individual into a gibbering ball of fear hiding under their desk. Â And yet, it’s what we all want to do! Â In the middle school writing club I lead each week, I’m reminded of this as the student writers gathered

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: Dear Dumb Diary

25NovemberSuzanne4 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I have, currently sitting beside me, ‘The Worst Things in Life are Also Free’ and ‘Let’s Pretend This Never Happened’ so those are the two that will get my focus today. They’re written and illustrated by the mc, Jamie Kelly, but there’s a distinct possibility that Jim Benton sneaked a peak inside her diary. Â Here’s

Flash Friday: Showing Someone Trapped or Puzzled

22NovemberSuzanne9 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

I’d like to start with an apology to A. A. Milne and the boy Christopher Robin. Â What I’ve done with their beloved characters borders on sacrilege….which may be part of why I found it so amusing! That, and perhaps because I also have a head stuffed with fluff today, or something a little more like

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: Rump, by Liesl Shurtliff

17NovemberSuzanne4 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelfrump liesl shurtliff fractured fairy tale retelling

You’re going to have to excuse me if I geek out a bit aboutÂ how this book was constructed.Â It delivers wonderfully on its promise–The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin–and lives up to theÂ blurb on the back of a lighthearted and amusing tale,Â inventive andÂ delightful.Â But it goes much further than that! The book is all about the

Flash Friday–For the Love of Dentist

15NovemberSuzanne14 CommentsFlash Friday, Just for Laughs, Writing

So I’m cheating just a bit and jumping off my own assigned Flash topic, found here. Â You see, my dentist sent me a bill asking me to pay $400 for a crown I don’t have yet. Â I’m supposed to have it–they did the crown prep two+ months ago, but I’ve been busy and putting off

Happy Veteran’s Day!

11NovemberSuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery, The Bookshelf, The Human Condition

When I was a kid and I thought of veteran’s, I thought of my Grandpa and other old men like him.Â And while I knew on an intellectual level that by celebrating this day we were giving thanks to them for their sacrifices, and willingness to sacrifice, on an emotional level I celebrated Veteran’s Day

Flash Friday–The Loud Librarian

8NovemberSuzanne37 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

I’ve always loved libraries–I think as a child they were my favorite places to visit.Â And while that may say all kinds of things about the pace of my childhood, I still find myself going to the library more than any place but home.Â I’ve even thought that if I couldn’t be a writer, my

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: Stacy Lynn Carroll and a Confession

3NovemberSuzanne2 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers

Today’s #MMGM is a tell-all (or at least tell-tale?) interview with the fabulous author Stacy Lynn Carroll.Â She’s spreading the word about her brand new book, Frogs and Toads, which is second in her Princess Sisters series! But, before we jump into the interview…I have a confession.Â Yes, of the kind that makes everyone else

Flash Friday on All Hallow’s Day–Demon Dog and the Shadows

31OctoberSuzanne5 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

This post is in honor of Zeke, who puts nightly terror into all young chicken thief-wannabes throughout our deep and dark woods. Demon Dog and the Shadows Yep, it all happend on the night of shadows.Â But, you need to know before I tell you that I’m not such a young dog, so this isn’t

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