Or Weendex, or even Windex. Call it what you will, I've created a topical index to all the Weenies short stories, along with a separate language-arts related index. If you are a teacher or librarian, you might find it useful.

Check it out. Tell your peers.

From Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: "Happy artificial holiday with strong commercial overtones." Lee handed me a wrinkled white paper bag. She was wearing a shirt with a heart on it. I guess in honor of Valentine's day. Except it was a real heart ( Read more... )

I suspect many people will be discussing the latest Santorum quote: "I think that could be a very compromising situation, where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved. It already happens, of course, with the camaraderie of men in combat, but I think it would ( Read more... )

I know there's a big game on, but I need to talk about something else. (And it's pretty obvious to me who will win. It's going to be the Denver Brocnos, proving once and for all the miraculous powers contained in the prayers of a devout athlete.) But to the matter at hand ( Read more... )

So, for those who followed along, we had an interesting discussion during the past several days, exploring whether men have an advantage in kidlit. A blog's comment section isn't the ideal place for an extended dialogue, so I suspect the conversation will die out soon, if it hasn't already. But I need to do a bit of wrap-up. First, I want to ( Read more... )

I recently posted a question on a listserve for librarians, asking whether there is a bias toward males in kidlit awards and promotion. Some interesting and informative responses resulted, as did some interesting replies to those responses in various private message boards. In the interest of generating a more-public discussion, and allowing ( Read more... )

I posted this on YALSA-bk, where there's been a bit of discussion about the Daily News piece that trashed Walter Dean Myers, but I figured I'd share it with a larger audience. (That means both of you, my two loyal readers ( Read more... )

So, having discovered how amazingly easy it is to publish an eBook (not counting the multi-week learning curve or that fact that publishing is 1,000 times easier than publicizing), I decided to put together something that might interest the teens and adults who are already reading my books. It gives me giddy pleasure to introduce my brand-new ( Read more... )

Really -- they really help keep the temperature down in the summer. Wait. No. Wrong fans. Sorry. I got up too early. Speaking of which, I woke up to find, via Twitter, that the amazing librariansdaughter (as she is known on YouTube) made a video blog post about my eBook.  I'm tickled.  And I'm sure she'd be pleased if you took a moment to watch it.

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I should probably keep my mouth shut about the news that Amazon has purchased Marshall Cavendish's kids book until things become clearer. Whatever I say will annoy someone. But if I can broadcast my feeling about the loathsome snarkiness of Kirkus Reviews and be so audacious as to tell folks at the ALA that Best Books was broken and needed to be ( Read more... )