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A New-Old Obsession

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When does research become obsession?Â At what point is the To Read pile just too high?Â And how did I keep all these books from falling over? That last question?Â I tip-toed.Â And I’m listening for the thunderous thump.Â As for the others…I don’t think my books can possibly climb too high–but then, research AND obsessing

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: The Monster’s Ring, by Bruce Coville

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I know, I know!Â How is itÂ I haven’t read any ofÂ The Magic Shop books?Â And more, still call myself a middle grade writer?Â Well, I missed them the first go round, and probably the second, but just think of them as a lovely dessert I was saving for last!Â Today’s spotlight is The Monster’s Ring,

Friday Funny Faceoff

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I continue to be fascinated by humor, above and beyond loving that it makes me laugh.Â Since I suspect most of you could use a laugh by the end of the week, too, I’m going to share my ‘study’ of all things funny each Friday in a faceoff discussion of the funny stuff that crossed

Marvelous Middlegrades: Urchin of the Riding Stars, by M. I. McAllister

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I’ve decided to give the blog a bit of structure, and to kick that off I’ll be spotlighting a middle grade book here every Monday–a marvelous plan, don’t you think?Â I love to read middle grades, and love to share them!Â First up is my beach week read, Urchin of the Riding Stars, first in

The Buzz of a Lightning Strike

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After a long day of WriteOnCon brain-crashing, I remembered that beach vacations involve time on the beach and packed up the towels, bags, and beach toys.Â Only to be met by this– BOOM!!! Yep, a big ol’ eastern storm.Â The kind that makes me want to throw caution to the wind and run for the

How Candy Crush Is a Writing Exercise

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My epiphany started with another attempt to go to bedÂ ‘on time’, which is to say earlier than my brain wants to shut up and go to sleep.Â I was attempting to wind the thing down with a few levels of Candy Crush–somewhere in the early 40s levels, I believe it was–and having a challenging time

What Time Is It When…

29JulySuzanne7 CommentsJust for Laughs, The Human Conditionsmashes fence tree on fence joke laugh humor

A tree falls on your fence? No glib answers, now! In your calculations, pleaseÂ take into account that the wind-speed last night was no more than 5-10 mph, although there was up to an inch ofÂ rain. Also, that no one checked the back pasture fence (whereon this tree resides) yesterday, so we have no way of

Thursday’s Children: Plunging Into the Unknown

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My friend Pat’s post reminded me of the amazing inspiration dreams can be, and what it takes to live them.Â Which also–in keeping with this week’s theme–takes a little crazy.Â And that made me think of turtles. Let’s see…turtles: Cold,

If you’re wondering who’s behind the alien invasion…

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The Ravencroft animals cornered Ace, a little green alien whose book just came out, and plied him with a few of their questions! Zeke (the dog) How do you say hello on your planet? We stick out our tongues (like in my photo). Personally, I

Killing the Darling Zombie Chicken

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I’mÂ doing revisions on NinChicksÂ for Christa (yes, that’s my agent I’m talking about there…and still squeeing over as you can see from this post on the cabinet!) and, ahem, recently cut my whole zombie chicken thread out of the novel. Since it doesn’t play a crucial role in the plot, we decided it was too distracting

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