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This is a holiday weekend at Chez Gauthier. All my weekend work involves cooking mass quantities of food. I'll be back obsessing about w...

Last year, I read about a blogger who did a monthly thank you to all the bloggers who had included him in posts in some way. I have no recol...

And I found it! I heard about this at the Kidlitosphere listserv, lost--Oh, you don't need to hear about all that. What I've got h...

Facebook is on fire over the purchase of Goodreads by Amazon . What little I've read about this deal suggests it has a lot to do with Ki...

We have a wide variety of venues this month. Sat., April 6, Anthony Paolucci , Bank Square Books , Mystic, 2:00 to 4:00 PM Sun., April...

Just in from Finding Wonderland: The Finding YA Weblog , a review of Saving the Planet & Stuff .  Tanita and I are going to be talking...

I spent Sunday in bed getting over something, which I'm mentioning here because Sundays have a big impact on my work life. Sundays are w...

In MIND MELD: Rebranding Fiction as Young Adult  ( SF Signal back in January) a number of writers give their suggestions for adult titles t...

Many of this weekend's links are recent ones because the Feedly reader is working so well for me, and I'm able to hit the blogs I ac...

Okay, so, if all you have for an idea is a situation or scene , how do you get to a real story idea, one in which something happens to someb...