It’s been a year! Here, on cue, comes 2025 with its round, comfortable numerals, as full as the world. I wish all well as we enter this second quadrant of the millennium. For a wrap-up, here are links to some blog posts and interviews from this year. The debut year of my middle-grade novel The …
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I can’t write if I’m not roaming around… I love cafés and even bars, where I’m that oddball all alone with a notebook. I write outdoors a lot – I like to walk out to a local area of farm fields flanking the Connecticut River, just below the line of the Holyoke Range, then park …
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On May 14, 2024, my book for kids, THE MONARCHS OF WINGHAVEN, will launch into the world! The event will take place at Broadside Bookshop at 7pm. Kids of all ages are welcome, especially those age 8-12, the book’s target audience. We’ll have a little after-party for grownups, too. Please join me.
My middle grade novel, The Monarchs of Winghaven, has a launch date! Sammie and Bram, my dauntless bird- and butterfly-watching protagonists, will meet the world on May 14, 2024. Illustrations by Naila Moreira, THE MONARCHS OF WINGHAVEN
I have some thrilling news, which is that my middle-grade novel, THE MONARCHS OF WINGHAVEN, will be published by Walker Books US in the spring of 2022: I’m so happy to have this opportunity to put a book into the world about a theme dear to my heart: a young person’s bond with nature. As …
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Reading back through an old notebook, I rediscovered some fine insights by fiction writer Tim Weed, originally shared during a talk he gave at the yearly meeting of the NE Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. He spoke of creating stories that will build lingering meaning for readers. Weed started by playing two pieces …
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I have an article out in Science News for Students this week, on the immune system, and how computers are allowing us to create simulated immune-cell interactions that mimic the human body and healing: Virtual Wounds: Computers probe healing It’s written for young people age 8 to 18. When the body needs to deliver immune …
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