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Today I have a few unrelated news items to share. First, if you’re a librarian, the 2009 Debutantes (of which I am one) have a fantastic giveaway for you!
To celebrate Teens Read Week, the YA and MG authors of Debut 2009 are giving away a 46 book set of their debut novels to ONE lucky [...]
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I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here.
This question comes from my editor, Kate Sullivan, who asked me this: In class, we’d sit for hours dissecting the symbolism in a novel, and I always wondered if we were stretching for meaning or if the author actually intended [...]
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I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here.
Sarah asks: Why did you include Sidhean in the story? What about his character made him fun to write?
In most, if not all, versions of Cinderella, Cinderella is assisted in her desires to go to the ball (and thereby meet [...]
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I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here.
Hadas asks: I have some thoughts and theories about the names you chose — their meaning and the partition between regular or ordinary names and the more fantasy-like ones. I won’t tire you with my ideas, but I would love [...]
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On Monday night I did my first “official” Ash event at the Kid Lit Salon, a monthly meeting of kid lit readers and writers at Book Passage, a wonderful bookstore in Corte Madera, CA. I was in the company of several other 2009 debut YA authors: Cheryl Renee Herbsman, C. Lee McKenzie, Sarah Quigley, and [...]
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