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Patience, perseverance and a whole lotta reading
Saturday was the monthly meeting of the great Austin chapter of the SCBWI at the awesome independent bookstore BookPeople, and all who attended got a healthy dose of inspiration. The speaker was author...
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Authors helping authors
When I joined the children’s book writing community, one of the things I was immediately impressed with was how supportive everyone was. Not all writing communities — or all creative communities — are...
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Book recommendation
I don’t write book reviews — I’m not a fast reader — but when I find a book that I really love, I like to write it. Today’s book recommendation is for Gayle Forman‘s young adult novel If I Stay. I...
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New Enid Blyton book uncovered
Being British — to my American readers, yep, that’s right, if I was talking instead of typing, I’d have a funny accent — the first author I knew by name because I loved her books so much was Enid...
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Self-publishing and ebooks
Going into the Austin SCBWI chapter’s annual conference this weekend — it was great, by the way — I was curious to find out how middle-grade novels are selling in ebooks, as that’s what I write. I’ve...
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Rest in Peace L.K. Madigan
L.K. Madigan In January, I wrote about the wonderful community that children’s book writing has and how they were supporting young adult author L.K. Madigan, who had been diagnosed with stage four...
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Beautiful first paragraph: Myra McEntire’s Hourglass
I had a blast volunteering for my local Austin SCBWI chapter a few weeks ago at the Texas Library Association. It was my first time at the conference, and the rumors of all the free advanced reading...
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My husband and I were talking about fear the other day and he mentioned the saying that’s painted over the player’s entrance to centre court at Wimbledon: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and...
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I read some really troubling news today. In the U.K., three out of every 10 children do not own any books — none! No bookcases in their bedroom with Where the Wild Things Are, The Little Prince, Harry...
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Blog has moved
DayByDayWriter has moved. I figured it was time to have a URL with my name. So, please come and join in over at SamanthaClark.wordpress.com. Write On!
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