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Veterans Day, NaNo inspiration, and Nothing Like You
I'm appearing a couple of different places around the web today:
At AuthorsNow!, I did a Veterans Day post featuring Class of 2k9 author Rosanne Parry. She wrote Heart of a Shepherd, about a boy who keeps his family ranch running while his father is deployed to Iraq. Referenced in the post are some resource links Rosanne has on her website, including "Things a Kid Can Do to Support a Military Family," "How Teachers Can Support a Child of a Deployed Soldier," and "Book Recommendations for the Tender-Hearted Reader."
At the Penultimate Page blog, I wrote a guest post with a couple of tips on how to keep going (and going) during NaNoWriMo.
And speaking of the Class of 2k9 and penultimate things, here is the penultimate book launch from that class:
Lauren Strasnick's Nothing Like You, a contemporary YA novel from Simon Pulse. Synopsis: "A seventeen-year-old grieving the loss of her Mom can’t let go of a one-night stand." Since grief and obsession figure largely in my own novel (though in rather different circumstances), you can imagine that I'm quite interested in this book, and in seeing how Lauren Strasnick handles these topics.
At AuthorsNow!, I did a Veterans Day post featuring Class of 2k9 author Rosanne Parry. She wrote Heart of a Shepherd, about a boy who keeps his family ranch running while his father is deployed to Iraq. Referenced in the post are some resource links Rosanne has on her website, including "Things a Kid Can Do to Support a Military Family," "How Teachers Can Support a Child of a Deployed Soldier," and "Book Recommendations for the Tender-Hearted Reader."
At the Penultimate Page blog, I wrote a guest post with a couple of tips on how to keep going (and going) during NaNoWriMo.
And speaking of the Class of 2k9 and penultimate things, here is the penultimate book launch from that class:
Lauren Strasnick's Nothing Like You, a contemporary YA novel from Simon Pulse. Synopsis: "A seventeen-year-old grieving the loss of her Mom can’t let go of a one-night stand." Since grief and obsession figure largely in my own novel (though in rather different circumstances), you can imagine that I'm quite interested in this book, and in seeing how Lauren Strasnick handles these topics.
We just don't get to use the word "penultimate" enough.