I was afraid to read this book because of the heavy themes introduced even just in the synopses I read on Goodreads and Amazon, but I’m...

First things first, I have news on the writing front: I have an agent! I’m now being represented by the Sheldon Fogelman Agency. Very...

The Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness is a YA dystopia series about a planet where men’s thoughts can be heard out loud by everyone...

Q: (edited to remove specifics about the manuscript) In the book my one lead character – a Brain surgeon – will be performing two major...

I won a writing award! Okay–to be more accurate, I received a “Letter of Merit” (sort of like honorable mention) from the Society for...

In many other respects, this book was better than the first book. For example, in Shiver, I felt a few of the side characters weren’t...

I’m beginning to notice that the toddler likes to pick books that have something familiar about them or are about one of her favorite...

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts. We’ve read a ton of books in the interim, (and actually we go to the library on...

But Shiver isn’t without it’s flaws. Grace’s best friends feel rather thin as characters and I often found I had trouble caring about...

My short story/flash fiction piece, “Locked In”, has been published in the latest issue of Luna Station Quarterly, an online magazine for...

Really enjoyed this character driven book about a teenaged girl named Ruby who was abandoned by her mother and was forced by social...

There is a lot going on over at chez Monkey Poop right now. My babysitter is on vacation, I have a close family member graduating from...

It’s been about 3 years since I first started blogging. Last year I did a whole week of monkey-related posts, so I thought, “Why not do a...

But in the end (or rather from the very beginning) I was completely blown away by this book–by its authenticity, by its courage, and yes,...

I try to update my Boston Area children’s author events calendar every week. This sounds easy, but actually it’s time consuming and often...

My one-year-old and I went on another trip to the library today! Today I let her do all the choosing. But before we get to the books from...

All this talk on various blogs about whether or not writers should be posting negative book reviews has got me thinking about my own...

My 1-year-old and I went to the library today. She ran around, choosing books at random, while I went through and looked at them...

I got this book as a Christmas present, and it looked like a quick read, so I read it out loud with my husband while I was supposed to be...

Due to the nature of this blogpost, there will be spoilers for The Giver and for Inception (the movie). So consider yourself forewarned....