We had a wonderful turn-out at our inaugural KidLit Drink Night last night – thanks so much to all the readers, writers, teachers and just plain delightful Tallahasseans who joined us for drinks, tasty treats and lots of book-alicious conversation. We’ll be doing it again in March, so stay tuned for all the details on [...]
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Tallahassee’s first KidLit Drink Night: SO much fun!
Posted in angele's posts, KidLit Drink Night Tallahassee, stuff we love, tagged children's writers, KidLit Drink Night, KidLit Drink Night Tallahassee, writers, YA on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by Mary E. Pearson
Posted in books we love on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Set in the future, The Adoration of Jenna Fox is about 17 year-old Jenna who is recovering from a serious car accident. Watched over by a protective mother and a cold, distant grandmother, she struggles to piece together bits of her past, pieces of which are missing and which her adoring parents are determined to [...]
How do I love thee, Suzanne Collins
Posted in laura's posts, writers we love, tagged Catching Fire, Healthy Stalker Love, Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins, Sweet Peeta, The Hunger Games on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How do I love thee, Suzanne Collins? Let me count the ways. I love thee for the micro tension thy weave into every line for characters both dark and light for a heroine complex in her flaws and grace. I love thee, Suzanne Collis, for thy descriptions for the psychology of a soldier’s mind themes of war [...]
I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN…by Ally Carter
Posted in books we love, laura's posts, tagged Ally Carter, Cammie "the Chameleon" Morgan, Gallagher Girls, Good Summer Reads, I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You, YA fiction on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
…I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women poses as an all-girls prep school, but in reality it’s a school for super spies. This is the story of Cammie “the Chameleon” Morgan, who can kill a man seven different ways but can’t unravel the complexities of a teenage boy’s heart. With the help [...]
Tourists at the Magic Kingdom…of Critiquing
Posted in angele's posts, conferences we love, on writing, revisions, writers we love, tagged critique groups, writing conferences on June 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all been writingwritingwriting for weeks now, preparing our manuscripts for an extended weekend of critique out of town. A weekend that’s now almost over (sob!), but talk about an awesome way to dig down into five very different stories by five very different writers! How did we all end up here?
Can you help?
Posted in angele's posts, on writing, websites we love, tagged Amanda Morgan, awesome writers, charity auctions, Deepwater Horizon, do the write thing for nashville, Gulf Coast, Myra McEntire, nashville floods, oil spill, Victoria Schwab on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As we near the Gulf Coast dread the seemingly unavoidable environmental destruction looming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, many in the Nashville area have just experienced a catastrophe of their own. The historic floods that devastated not just downtown Nashville but so many other communities throughout the region left behind families and businesses now [...]
CROSSING JORDAN by Adrian Fogelin
Posted in books we love, laura's posts, tagged Adrian Fogelin, Cass and Jemmie, Chocolate Milk, Crossing Jordan, Middle Grade fiction, Race Relations, Stand By Me, Tallahassee story on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so proud of one of our own hometown heros! Adrian Fogelin hails from North Florida and while I’ve heard much about her prior to this, I’ve never gotten around to dipping into her most renowned novel CROSSING JORDAN. I’m so glad I did.
GLEE: Hell-O
Posted in laura's posts, tv we love, tagged Emma Pilsbury, Finn, Glee, Gleeks, Hell-O, Mr. Shue, New Directions, Rachel Berry, Vocal Adrenaline on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s your 5-minute recap of Glee: It’s a story of new beginnings and Hell-O’s. We open with Finn, now a basketball star who is entirely off his game, tolerating Rachel’s affections, still pissed at his former best friend Puck and pining over Quinn, not to mention his plummeting popularity. All of this makes him a vulnerable target to [...]
BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE by Kate DiCamillo
Posted in books we love, laura's posts, tagged Because of Winn Dixie, Caldecott, children's literature, good reads, Kate DiCamillo, Newberry on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the school where I substitute teach, there is a third grade class with a teacher by the name of Miss Tara who, in addition to being an amazing teacher, also has exquisite taste in children’s literature and loans me the books that her students are reading because she is also very generous. And it was through this, that I was able to discover the wonderful story of BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE.
WINN DIXIE is the tale of ten-year-old India Opal Buloni, a newcomer to the sleepy town of Naomi, Florida where she and her father, the Preacher, have recently taken up residence. Feeling a little bit lonely with a whole summer before her and no playmates to speak of, Opal goes to the grocery store to buy a box of macaroni and finds instead, a grinning, sneezing mutt running amok in the produce section. With a bit of quick thinking, Opal claims ownership and names the dog, appropriately, Winn Dixie. After that moment, the two are inseparable.
Comic Relief for the Writer
Posted in heather's posts, stuff we love, websites we love, tagged comic relief, comics, Debbie Ridpath, humor, inkygirl, writer, writing on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There comes a time when everyone’s story needs a little comic relief and… okay, I admit it. I can’t help you there. But I do have just the trick for when your writerly life is in need of comic relief. A few minutes spent with the clever and hilarious comics of Debbie Ridpath, the creative [...]
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