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Okay, folks. No fancy words. No gimmicks. Just a straightforward plea for your support. The Fat Kid movie rocks. It has gotten so many great reviews we’ve lost count. The people involved with this project are some of the coolest people you will ever meet. We are offering awesome incentives for giving. This movie has [...]

This just might be the most important blog I ever post (at least in terms of my writing career). If  you want to see the Fat Kid Rules the World movie at a theater near you, please join the movement and pledge at Kickstarter If you do, I will kiss your virtual feet.
Here’s the deal: [...]

Can you believe it? The Fat Kid Rules the World movie premiers THIS FRIDAY at the SXSW film festival! How amazing is that? I thought I'd take a moment to share my excitement with all of you who have supported my work in so many different ways. Read on for the inside scoop!
This Thursday, I'll [...]

… at the SXSW film festival!  (www.sxsw.com)
Everyone who has been involved with this movie is really excited. This is one of the biggest and most well respected film festivals out there, and it's a perfect match for Fat Kid Rules the World. The SXSW film festival takes place in Austin, TX  from March 9-18th. Unlike [...]

So, it's two days later and I'm still smiling. This past Monday night, I got to see the Fat Kid Rules the World movie for the first time. And I finally met Matthew Lillard!

The movie isn't  one hundred percent complete - the score is not yet there - but it's mostly done, and honestly, to [...]

As fall settles into upstate New York, I find myself thinking about all the ways my life is beginning to change. Already, I find my window of time outdoors growing smaller as the evening chill and darkening sky make my warm, well-lit living room seem like the more enticing option. I seldom bake in the [...]

Writer. Yes, folks, this is going to be a writing blog. ;-}
I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate my husband for becoming a finalist in the Writers of the Future contest. For those of you who haven't heard of this contest, I invite you to check out their website at www.writersofthefuture.com. In a nutshell, [...]

As a mother and a children's book writer, I'm always concerned for children's safety. This is especially true at back-to-school time. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent out a press release today and one of the chilling facts they included is that a 2010 analysis of more than 4,000 attempted abductions found [...]

Because many of you have asked about the fate of my stranded cat, and because we only just got our power back last night so my mind is still on Hurricane Irene rather than writing strategies, I've decided to write this blog about my poor, miserable hard-luck pet.
Merry has always been the type of cat [...]

The following is a short excerpt from my book Writing and Selling the YA Novel, published by Writer's Digest.  This section appears in the chapter on finding ideas, and it focuses on one of the most frequent litmus tests used by agents and editors to decide if a proposal is worthy of publication. Knowing whether [...]