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Especially for the students who came to see me at Politics & Prose!
I had an AMAZING time at my favorite bookstore, Politics & Prose. Even though we had torrential rain in Washington well over 100 children and adults braved the weather and came out to hear me talk...
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Levitate Your Fiction Hand Out!
EVERY NOVEL HAS “UNBELIEVABLE“ ELEMENTS. YOUR JOB AS A WRITER IS TO “MAKE BELIEVE”—THAT IS MAKE YOUR READER BELIEVE THE PARTS OF YOUR STORY THAT DON’T MAKE LITERAL SENSE. SUSPEND DISBELIEF! HOW? HERE...
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This Is Your Brain On CREATIVITY! Storyboarding Part 2
There are sound neurological reasons storyboarding works for some of us. It literally probes the deepest recesses of the creative mind. How? Neurology. A human brain is a mysterious thing and as a...
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Storyboard Your Way Out Of The Forest
Are you a plotter or a plunger? Can I see a show of hands for each category? I’ve always hated that question a little because I just don’t get it, at least for my own writing. Plotters plan ahead,...
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What? A Plot!
The Shocking Truth! Novels have plots. I have a confession- For me, like a lot of other novelists, plotting used to feel IMPOSSIBLE. As unfathomable as an algebra problem. And just as bound up by some...
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Chart your course with The Map Of Me activity kit
Click to download a free fun activity kit for THE MAP OF ME!
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Celebrate Women’s History Month!
March is Women’s History Month. Click this page to download a free activity kit (PDF)
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Great News! A New Book!!
News Flash! My Vermont College of Fine Arts classmate Debbie Dunn and I sold our new book WANTED: WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS. WANTED will be published by Disney-Hyperion in 2019. Common wisdom suggests...
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A Fabulous “New” Video of Elinor Smith!
See Elinor SOAR- and talk, too! The University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collection has posted new archival footage of Elinor’s attempt to set the world altitude record- with her...
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Another new book!
We can finally spill the beans! Disney will publish our second STEM picture book biography, PERKIN’S PURPLE. It’s the almost magical but totally true story of the boy who invented the chemistry that...
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INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED!
We can’t wait to share our new, smart, powerful TRUE story about a team of women who coded the future– INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED. It will be in bookstores and libraries everywhere in October. For now...
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Especially for the students who came to see me at Politics & Prose!
I had an AMAZING time at my favorite bookstore, Politics & Prose. Even though we had torrential rain in Washington well over 100 children and adults braved the weather and came out to hear me talk...
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Levitate Your Fiction Hand Out!
EVERY NOVEL HAS “UNBELIEVABLE“ ELEMENTS. YOUR JOB AS A WRITER IS TO “MAKE BELIEVE”—THAT IS MAKE YOUR READER BELIEVE THE PARTS OF YOUR STORY THAT DON’T MAKE LITERAL SENSE. SUSPEND DISBELIEF! HOW? HERE...
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