softening

I was thinking last night that maybe the girls were ready to see the recent movie Troy, the version of the Greek story starring Brad Pitt.  We’re at this weird stage in the house where the new teen is thirsting for things well beyond her years and the tween is sort of squeamish (often needlessly [...]

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you lost me on page nine

I have a hard time articulating these things sometimes, but there are moments when it becomes clear to me that I’ve run into an inauthentic boy voice when I’m reading.
It’s a YA novel, beginning of chapter two, and I’m already feeling like this narrator sounds wrong.  Very wrong.  The previous scene where he’s having a [...]

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digital storytelling ≠ the end of books

I was on the sidelines with the soccer dads Saturday talking about the future of various digital media.  Since we don’t live far from MIT, Harvard and about a gross of other colleges and universities it isn’t unusual to have wildly informed discussions about media that are still in development.  The the one thing I [...]

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now it can be told

Once again I am participating in the Cybils Awards as a judge.  I’ve broken from graphic novels this year to participate in the Middle Grade fiction panel.  My reasons are varied, but I was torn between the two and really felt more… invested, for lack of a better explanation.
What I mean is, I’ve just spent [...]

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