While cleaning out my writing room today, I came across a Creative Writing assignment... from 1985! For this fourth grade assignment, Mrs. P...

Earlier this week, as I hope you all know, the ALA gave out its book awards. I woke up at 4am to hear the winners announced live and was v...

Today I finished reading the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly . Later in the day, while reading The New York Times , something odd caug...

Eventually, a paperback edition of Thirteen Reasons Why will come out. One day. At least, that's what I'm told. I just don't...

This is way too awesome to not tell you about. Last week, my bro-in-law was in New Zealand attending Unicon XV -- the Unicycle World Champi...

Gumby! He was once a little green slab of clay. Gumby! You should see what Gumby can do today. Gumby! He can walk into any book, with his po...

The winner of Carolyn Mackler's Tangled , Amy Huntley's The Everafter , and a signed copy of Thirteen Reasons Why is... Amanda Hewe...

Here’s all you’ve gotta do: Leave your name in the comments section by 11:59pm on Friday night. One name will be chosen at random to win t...

Since mid-November, my writing room has been stuffed with presents, wrapping paper, luggage, and furniture (temporarily stored here to accom...

We just got home from ringing in the new year at Yosemite National Park. The big question at the New Years bash regarded how to pronounce t...

As the clock counts down to the end of what's been an exciting and crazy year, I'll be with JoanMarie in Yosemite National Park. We...

(Just in case your Christmas card got lost in the mail!)

Ordinary: Extraordinary:

A few weeks after JoanMarie and I married, we moved to Wyoming for six months so she could complete a college internship. Although I didn...

JoanMarie’s stepfather, my stepfather-in-law, passed away early this week. We’re in Mount Shasta right now, along with JoanMarie’s youngest...

Original shots, borrowed clips, great music...and anime! Psst! Hey, Hollywood. Are ya payin' attention?

For my final book-related outing of the year, Cleveland was a great note to end on. Sure, it was bone-chilling outside. Sure, I should...

I will try my absolute hardest not to shout the title of this post at the beginning of my presentations on Friday. (In case you're scra...

JoanMarie was raised on classical music. I was raised on classic rock. So she was excited to hear about a fundraising holiday concert whic...

Check out this article at ScienCentral.com: Joy of Giving If you don't feel like reading the whole article, it's basically about a b...