Me posing with the Sunday Nov 28, 2021 New York Times - the top half of page 22 of the Book Review is the amazing review of "Red and Green and Blue and White"! External validation feels scary. To let it influence my internal measure of the worth of what I've done...
screen shots from the interview Betsy Bird is a librarian, blogger, author, friend, and one heck of an interviewer. In this post from November 17, 2021, What's Red and Green and Blue and White All Over? An Interview with Lee Wind and Paul O. Zelinsky, Of Course! we...
A screen shot of the book club that read "No Way, They Were Gay?" I had so much fun chatting with Carrie's book club this past weekend. They'd read "No Way, They Were Gay?" and then gathered around fudge and a laptop where I answered questions and chatted with the...
A screenshot from our panel. Clockwise from top left: Lesa, me(!), Patricia, Paula, Traci, and Melissa. If you're attending the National Council of Teachers of English online conference November 18-21, I hope you'll check this the hour-long panel I was honored to be...
When you write a novel, or even a middle grade nonfiction book, you get some space in the actual book to acknowledge, and thank, some of the many people who helped make the book possible. Picture books don't really have the real estate inside them... But that doesn't...
A screen shot of the Donor Profile article at the Binc website. Lots of writers have day jobs. I've been fortunate that for the last four plus years, mine is in the book industry in a job I love! I'm currently the Director of Education and Programs (book marketing...
