Every year , I try to make homemade sweet treats as holiday thank-you gifts to the publishing people who worked on year's past books and...

The paper was long ago removed from our recycling bin or deleted from our e-readers. Its validity has been refuted via comments sections and...

I was casting about on Twitter for ideas on what to blog about, and author/illustrator Katie Davis asked the question, "What make...

In Meghan’s “no resolutions for me” post, she lists her best “thinking” spots and asks readers to tell about theirs. Her query led me off o...

"The past is another country; they do things differently there" begins a novel about a middle-aged man who visits a painful time i...

I can't help myself when I get a new idea. Actually... this is an old one that keeps coming up over and over again. I was brutally made ...

More than fifteen years ago, I took a leave of absence from my teaching job. I had been invited to travel to China with a Children’s Literat...

I'm so thrilled there has been so much good news recently for Ling & Ting (as well as a New York Times Best 2010 Notable Children...

There are many wonderful lines in the 1991 film Father of the Bride starring Steve Martin as the title character, George Banks. A personal f...

  At the beginning of the year, I made eight work-related New Year's resolutions. It's been a while since I looked back at them...

A couple of years ago, I thought I’d mess around trying to make videos on my computer with pictures that I had for our high school class web...

I have a few new things in the works. Right now they are mostly in my mind but they will happen! I have to get my Balto book done firs...

Yes, it is early this year, but Hannukah is upon us. Don’t have enough presents for all eight nights (Dec. 1- 9th)? How could that be? There...

Wren Lea Trindade, our first Blue Rose Girl Baby! Yes, one of the Blue Rose Girls had a much more eventful Thanksgiving than the re...

As readers of this blog will know, I go to a lot of conferences. Some are writer's conferences (usually SCBWI ), others are trade ...

Over the years, one of the comments I often get about my work is that it is quiet. It is an interesting label to ponder, particularl...