This artificially-flavored book is not dedicated to you.
Sandra Boynton has become my favorite children’s author. Nothing makes me happier than reading one of her Pookie books to my daughter. One of our new favorites is her non-Pookie…
Zombies!
Check it out. A zombie wedding cake! Do you like it? In terms of unconventional and nonconforming things like this, I believe that people fall into one of three camps:…
Water Street Books
I spent last night at Water Street Books in Exeter, NH, discussing Something Missing with enthusiastic readers. It’s a beautiful independent bookstore located along a quaint little street lined with…
Not all books should be recorded
Where the Wild Things Are - a book I have never read consists of only ten sentences - yet it is the second most popular audiobook in the iTunes Music…
Raven
I wrote about group descriptors in the animal world a while ago—words like a murder of crows and a pride of lions. I also proposed a few of my own,…
Ten-year-old genius
In the spirit of Connie Wanek’s "Radiator" and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow," I challenged my students to identify a topic that no poet has ever written about before.…
Old fashioned book burning
A Baptist Church in Canton, NC, is hosting a good old-fashioned "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of Satan's works, including all non-King James Bible versions, popular books by…
Death is not a deterrent
Whenever I speak about my book at a bookstore or library, I always encourage my audience members to begin writing. I tell them that anyone can write if they apply…
Out of print but still in demand
BookFinder.com tracks America's most sought-after out-of-print titles and updates their list annually. It’s an interesting list, usually populated by previously unheard-of books, but occasionally you find something interesting. This year’s…
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