Picture Credit Intuition is often either knocked as superstitious (by Logic Brain types) or embraced as a mystical power (by Creative Brain types). (p.s. my brain is half of each; they fight a lot.) I’m beginning to think intuition is our own personal superpower. On vacation, I picked up a magazine at a local bookstore in Leadville, CO, and read… Read More
On Monday, I recommended a great new middle grade book, The Man in the Cinder Clouds, and today we have author Rick Daley as a guest to talk about the path that The Man in the Cinder Clouds took to publication. In previous Notes from the E-Revolution, we talked about how authors these days were mixing it up, combining self and… Read More
If middle grade e-books are the next big thing, Rick Daley is right on time. The Man in the Cinder Clouds, Rick Daley’s delightful Christmas Tale, is a story within a story within a story. I love how Rick weaves these three plots together, each dependent on the other, nested like Christmas Dolls. In the first, we follow Jason to the… Read More
I’ve found a theme song for the E-Revolution: Make It Up As You Go by the Plain White T’s. I’m partial to the whole Wonders of the Younger album, especially the title song, which is a ballad to kidlit, if I ever heard one! Moving on … E-Readers for Kids While on vacation, I took a quick tally at the airport:… Read More
My husband thought I was crazy when I suggested taking our three boys to Boulder’s Shakespeare Festival while we were vacationing in Colorado. But they were staging The Comedy of Errors and I couldn’t pass it up. Plus, when queried, the kids were all for it. At which point, the husband gives me this shifty-eyed look, like I set the whole… Read More
The problem with being a science fiction writer is that those darn scientists keep leap-frogging ahead of us, discovering actual cool stuff that’s even more amazing than what we dream up. You know what they say about truth being stranger than fiction (because fiction is restrained to the plausible, while truth doesn’t care if you can believe it or not)…. Read More