My husband recently took my young adult love story on a trip with him to read (he hadn’t read it before, and generally doesn’t read my writing). He’s a tremendously good egg for reading it (he wanted to show support for my writing), but I kinda cringed. It’s a love story. He doesn’t read much in the first place, and… Read More
Worm Burner and Team USA – You. Are. Awesome! Congratulations on taking the Under-10 Soccer Championship, persevering through ninety degree temperatures and multiple games per day! You and your fellow 3rd and 4th grade soccer demons played hard and well and earned that trophy that is about as big as you are. I almost lost my voice, screaming by the sidelines,… Read More
Here at Ink Spells, I’ve tried to give parents some content guidelines to help in choosing books for their kids. Even so, finding good books is a constant challenge as my kids are always reading faster than I can keep up. There’s three of them after all; it’s hardly fair. Usually I check the AR guide first, to see what the “target”… Read More
A Ning is an online group where like-minded people share information and support each other in their common endeavors. It’s like Facebook for professionals. Not too long ago, I joined the YAlitchat Ning, a group for YA writers that grew out of the #yalitchat hashtag discussions on Twitter. For non-Twitter-ites, that’s like a scheduled discussion that occurs on Twitter, where… Read More
A RL friend asked me whether Gone With the Wind would be suitable for her advanced-reading 10 year old. I pointed her to some reviews, but basically said that it was a teen book due to content, and it might be best to wait until she was a teen, or read it with her to help her process the sexual… Read More
Can you believe there was a study about what cats do with their time? Answer: 22% of the time looking out the window. Not having the benefit of a person-cam or taking any scientific data, I tried to figure out how much time I spend Twittering, blogging, writing, shuttling kids to various destinations, folding laundry. I got halfway through the… Read More