Come out and see me Saturday, April 25, from 4-6 at Old Haunts Bookshop in Granite Bay, CA.
#independentBookstoreDay #indieauthor #shoplocal

Totally agree this is a problem - and you can't create lifelong readers if you skip over an entire age group. I remember seeing all the YA books in the sixth grade library when my kid was 12 and wondering if she was really ready for Twilight (not to pick on a particular title).

No one is *publishing* for 12-16 year olds. I wrote my first novel for that age group - what I thought was the younger end of the YA spectrum - and was advised to age down.

I never really introduced myself to the #kidlit community here - so hello! Author of 2 middle-grade novels (+YA out on submission). Half-Japanese, growing up at a time when non-white="not normal" or American (kinda like today?). That feeling of being on the outside of everything infuses my work.

I don't have a pre-writing routine. But I tend to be the most productive and get into a groove about 10 minutes before I should be logging on to my day job. #kidlitchat

The emphasis on kindness and community resonates even more deeply today.

A few years ago, a bookstore asked me to participate in a feature where #kidlit authors recommend a classic or a new release. I chose Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Fourth-grade me had been delighted by the super-intelligent rats who move Mrs. Frisby’s home out of the path of the farmer’s plow.

Current read.

On writing: "Writing a song starts in the middle of a world you haven't invented yet."

Through my daughter, I know this to be true: "To stand next to a horse that accepts you and to touch its warm body and look into its gigantic, soft, kinetic eye is transporting."

I can’t even put into words how big a thrill it is to see this man back on stage. Came out for the encore and sang “These Days” and “The Great Beyond.”

And Shannon/Narducy promised to be back next year to do “Document.”

For the first time ever after a snowstorm, all four corners where our street intersects with a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn have a pathway! I did not have to hike over the Alps to get to the grocery store. I'm seriously impressed.

Steph Curry’s Final Act: “There Are No Perfect Endings” NBA stars rarely get fairy-tale endings. But Steph still has his joy, and the hope for one more meaningful run. “There’s still enough of a chance,” he says.

Fairytale endings are rare in the NBA. So how would Steph Curry like his final chapter to play out?

Spoke at length with Steph, as well as KD, Dirk and Steve Kerr. My latest, at The Ringer:

In the past 13 hours, I've now seen two cars AND A SNOW PLOW get stuck on our street and have to dig out. I have a feeling our poor street is going to remain half plowed until the temps rise above freezing. #snowpacalypse2026

I love it when Moby Dick and Frog and Toad interact. 🐋

I hadn't read it since college and thought the Month of Dick would be a fun way to re-read. Melville is wild! I forgot about (and probably didn't appreciate back then) the play, for instance.

Thank you! Hope you enjoy!

I've been getting caught up on Moby Dick while visiting my husband's relatives in Colorado. Today his aunt stopped to say hi to her FedEx guy, who was chatting with a UPS guy on the side of the road. That's how I learned the package delivery service version of a "gam" is called a "fed up." 🐋

Welcome to Nantucket, the anthill in the sea!

*head explodes*

Loved today's New Bedford fashion report. Bell buttons! Bombazine cloaks! Bosky beards! 🐋

The labyrinth was built by Daedelus to imprison the Minotaur in Greek myth. Paul Harris, professor at LMU, writes: “the labyrinth displays the same symmetrical balancing of oppositions found in its associated meanings (tomb/womb, death/rebirth, cosmos-heavenly bodies/earthly underworld).”

Can you go down a rabbit hole when it concerns a Cretan labyrinth? Here is what Queequeg's tattoo in Chapter 4 would look like. Forgot to tag: #monthofdick 🐋

The labyrinth was built by Daedelus to imprison the Minotaur in Greek myth. Paul Harris, professor at LMU, writes: “the labyrinth displays the same symmetrical balancing of oppositions found in its associated meanings (tomb/womb, death/rebirth, cosmos-heavenly bodies/earthly underworld).”

Can you go down a rabbit hole when it concerns a Cretan labyrinth? Here is what Queequeg's tattoo in Chapter 4 would look like.

It took a while to get him the hardware, but congrats again, Kevin Durant, winner of the PBWA's 2024-25 Magic Johnson Award. (Presented on Thursday by PBWA president @howardbeck.bsky.social.)

The Chapter 1 heading "Loomings" (plural) caught my eye. In addition to "imminent/impending" and "to come into view as a distorted/enlarged/indistinct form," it once had a nautical meaning: the slow up-and-down motion of ships at sea (OED). 🐋 #monthofdick

Including one sourced as "Something unpublished"! 🐋

If you are a sports dad, grappling with youth sports issues and costs, you may want to have a listen to Bryan Ward's DadUp podcast as we discuss what should be the goal of the game. www.daduptribe.com/podcast/epis...

Yet I'm laughing over Artsonia. Amazing that's still around. We bought many gifts for the grandparents during the elementary school years and haven't thought about that site since.

The Year “6 7” Ate Parents’ Minds The most obnoxiously catchy phrase of the year means … nothing, which is probably why it took over everything in 2025

wrote about (eyes go black) SIX SSSEEEEVVVEEEENNNNNNNN www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...

Congrats to @harveyaraton.bsky.social on his fantastic middle-grade novel, The Goal of the Game! This moving, gripping tale about the choices we make on and off the field will resonate with both parents and kids. Even non soccer fans will be rooting for Z.