YA Authors Rock My Socks
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The Short Version: Is mostly, “OH MY GOD, I HOPE SOMEDAY SOMEBODY WANTS TO WRITE SOME ABOUT MY STUFF.” The Not Particularly Long Version:
Position on Fanfic
Yep, the heavy-hitting action hero of Watership Down and the first rabbit to be made entirely of awesome. Here’s a good shot from his fight with General Woundwort (the first rabbit to be made entirely of suck):
Giant Rabbits in History
Meg Cabot - God
When I was a kid, and things like this horrible earthquake in Haiti would happen, I would get really mad at God.
Why Pants Are Legal in Kansas
While writing Leviathan , I did a fair amount of research on women who passed as men to serve in the armed forces.
There is a picture I look at when I am feeling generally useless, or terrible, or unmotivated, or despairing, wishing that I had depth perception so I could be a truck driver or you know, any sort of mathematical ability so I could be an accountant.
sarahtales: Write The Change You Want To See In The World
Future of Reading according to John Green
Earlier this year, several nerdfighters 1 sent me a link to the Web site ThisIsNotTom.com , which features a picture of a man, seated, wearing only a bathrobe.
I should be working, but instead I am being annoyed that I can't seem to find a super chunky black or dark brown shoe that doesn't say
These are my problems
While visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently, I came upon what is quite possibly the most badass wolf ever, in "Wolf and Fox Hunt" by Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop, circa 1615-21. I stood and stared at it, awestruck by the wolf's audacity and pwnage. You won't get the full effect from a jpeg; the actual painting is enormous.
Portrait of the Wolf as a Young Badass
Morals and Values and Lessons, Oh My!
Last week I sent an email to various YA writers, whose works and opinions I respect, saying, "Frequently on my blog I get into the top of morals in literature. I have claimed that as an author, I cannot be the bearer of morals, cannot create morals in my books but can only be true to the story and allow the reader to create her/his own morals...Many of my readers push back, parents who believe that children's and young adult writers have an obligation to have moral standards and create boundaries in their books so as not to expose children to issues/situations that are age inappropriate." I invited those writers to respond to this issue any way they wanted, to agree or disagree.