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Friday July 9 -
add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion
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An educator's creative TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD lesson (fab guest post!)
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Friday July 23 - add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion
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Friday July 30 at 8:30 pm (EST) - Join @CapriciousReadr and @TooFondOfBooks as we view the film adaptation of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and live-tweet our reactions (hashtag #TKAM). Reserve your Netflix/library copy today!
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The Afghan Women's Writing Project

Dawn, Masha Hamilton, and Joyce Hinnefeld

One of the many highlights of BookExpo America was the opportunity to meet and chat with so many amazing people – bloggers, authors, publicists, random strangers on the subway … (no, I’m kidding about that last one. Mostly).

I visited with several authors at the Unbridled Books booth; and was [...]

Advice for NaNoWriMo participants (vlog)

Day 11 of NaNoWriMo: If I want to WIN the challenge by completing a 50,000 word novel (ha!) by midnight on November 30, I have to write an average of 1667 words a day.  That means I should have …. 18,337 words written by the end of the day today – yikes!  As of this [...]

Let’s write “One More Story” together!

Last week I wrote about One Story the magazine that brings subscribers one piece of short fiction every three weeks.

At their booth at the Boston Book Fest, One Story encouraged attendees to create an ever-changing collaborative short story; each passerby was invited to add one sentence.  You can read the results, the completed Exquisite Corpse [...]

I’ve joined NaNoWriMo! (eeks!)

OK, are you ready for the next stage of my anti-mid-life-crisis?!?  I’ve joined NaNoWriMo!  You may know that today, November 1, starts National Novel Writing Month.

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