by Cristin Terrill | Aug 18, 2024 | Blog
How’s your reading life going? When was the last time you checked in with yourself as a reader? For the past four years, I’ve begun almost every online and in-person workshop with these questions. The teachers, librarians, and school administrators I frequently work...
by Cristin Terrill | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog
Most authors are introverts. Our whole job is to sit alone with our laptops and invent make-believe characters to have conversations with rather than to have conversations with real life people! But despite being far more at home on my couch and with my dog than other...
by Admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Blog
Phil Bildner: Half a Life, Half My Life The First State of Being A few months ago, I read Erin Entrada Kelly’s brilliant middle grade novel, The First State of Being. There’s a scene in the middle of the book where Mr. Mosley is sharing words of wisdom with Michael,...
by Cristin Terrill | Jul 15, 2024 | Blog
One of the surprising gifts of author travel is that you get to experience cities that you might never have chosen as a destination in your personal life. It’s almost always a wonderful surprise. I’ve been lucky enough to visit splashy places like New York City, Los...
by Cristin Terrill | Jul 10, 2024 | Blog, News
For the next three weeks, author Vera Brosgol (Be Prepared, Anya’s Ghost, Memory Jars, and the Caldecott Honor-winning Leave Me Alone) will be in Alaska. She’ll be doing an art residency aboard a research vessel in the Aleutian Islands and documenting all that she...
by Phil Bildner | May 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Every student deserves to experience an author visit. It doesn’t matter if they attend a rural Title I school in York County, Nebraska or an elite prep school on the Upper West Side of New York City, every student should have the opportunity to experience an author...