better late than never…

Well, Wish now has its first professional review in Canada.  From what I can tell, CM Magazine is one of the only journals that reviews children’s literature up north; the reviewer gave Wish three and a half stars out of four, calling it “highly recommended.”  You can read the complete review here.
I was taken aback [...]

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London calling…

It feels like London today because Brooklyn is gray and gloomy with that cold sort of damp that chills you right to the bone…I remember being in London once in January and many houses had window boxes filled with pansies!  We were shivering and huddling together for warmth, and Londoners were running through Kensington Park [...]

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wow!

I should be sleeping, or editing my manuscript, or writing a new chapter…but instead I’m wide awake, and thoroughly enjoying the comments on my previous post.  And then I got a Google alert and watch OUT!  There’s another awesome review of A Wish After Midnight over at Gal Novelty (who is also wingstodust)!  The very [...]

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aftertaste

Sometimes I wonder about the timing of book releases…I just finished reading Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith, and found myself making endless comparisons to Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis, which I read several months ago.  I’d heard great things about Flygirl and it was original and interesting, but it was hard to read [...]

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guess what?

Author Kelly Starling Lyons let me know that BIRD is featured in the December issue of Ebony!  We’re not sure if it’s only online, or in the print magazine, too, but you can check it out here.

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“I got sunshine on a cloudy day…”

We’re expecting rain all day today as this “nor’easter” moves along the Atlantic coast, but I’ve got three things to brighten my day: 1) I wrote a new chapter last night, and if I do say so myself, it’s GREAT; 2) the young ladies over at Taste Life Twice have posted a fabulous review & [...]

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Indians in the Cupboard

Debby Dahl Edwardson, author of Blessing’s Bead, has written a provocative post on the misrepresentation of Native Americans in children’s literature. Stop by her blog, Through the Tollbooth, and consider some of the important points she makes:
When my kids were little we had a Cat in the Hat video that featured the Cat, translating [...]

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east/west/north/south

I’m happy to be paired with another African Canadian woman author, Itah Sadu, in this latest review in the Chronicle Herald.  George Elliott Clarke is a prominent African Canadian author/scholar/poet who teaches at the University of Toronto, but his heart is still in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Whenever he’s asked to review black books, George kindly [...]

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new review

I just discovered a new review—Wish is one of October’s ALAN’s Picks:
A Wish after Midnight by Zetta Elliott
CreateSpace, 2008, 230 pp., $11.99
Civil War/Relationships/Racism
ISBN: 978-1441474247
Genna is a sixteen-year-old African American girl living in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1990s. Her life is not easy. Her single mother struggles to put food on the table, while [...]

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Ten Cents a Dance

I read a review of this YA novel over at Reading in Color and was immediately intrigued:  1) because I love Chicago and hope to live there someday, and 2) because the idea of a taxi-dancer instantly made me think of prostitution, and since that’s an element in the novel I’m currently writing, I wanted [...]

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