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Planning for 2008 I’m planning to take off blogging until January 3. It’s family time and I hope a time for me to plan for next year. I’ve been blogging now for about a year and in that time, I’ve had about 50,000 visits to the sites, first on livejournal and now on my own [...]
Excaliber is only the 18th favorite fictional weapon of all time? How could that be? What about Luke Skywalker’s light saber–how did it fare? OK, what do you think is number 1? I would never have guessed. See what weapon earned the number one spot. Don’t you love things like this? Is this a list [...]
Someone recently asked, “What is flap copy?” Flap copy is the blurb that appears on the flap of the dust jacket for a book. It’s written like a “hook,” trying to persuade the reader that they will enjoy reading this book, so go buy it! Sometimes, it’s referred to as jacket copy. It is the [...]
Some interesting links: Alice Pope suggests provides links to information about agents for children’s literature. Janni Simner looks at drafts of a first paragraph. Have you seen the Google Earth Flight Simulator? Awesome.
The Harry Potter 7 book has no flap copy! Flap copy is the stuff written on the inside and back flap of the dust jacket and traditionally serves as an advertisement, a teaser, to the reader. HP7 has nothing on the back flap. On the front flap is a simple statement: Here we present the [...]
No. I did not go to a HP party at Midnight on Friday. No. I did not buy HP7. No, I do not know who died. (PLEASE tell me. I don’t mind a spoiler!) I didn’t buy Harry Potter because I’ve been busy shopping for other things. Here’s the 10 things I’ve bought instead: 1. [...]
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by Darcy Pattison JMPrince asked how to set up feeds. Here’s my non-technology expert answer: You can use several platforms for reading RSS feeds. I’ve been using Google Reader. For that, you simply go to google.com/reader and follow instructions. There are other RSS feed readers, such as BlogLines (which I used for a long time, [...]
by Darcy Pattison The only real readers are flashlight readers. Real writers take risks. Do villains really have to be politically correct? Libraries are learning to cater to digital natives.
I love children/s literature. It’s the best of the best of writing that’s out there. Those who get published are not always the best writers and storytellers. I hate to revise. Novel revision or picturebook revision–they are both hard. But it’s the only way I can get a publishable mss. One of the best moments [...]
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