It's the Educator's Guide for Anubis Speaks! A Guide to the Afterworld by the Egyptian God of the Dead. It's six pages of how the book correlates with Common Core Standards for language arts (speaking, listening, writing, and informational text) and social studies (geography and history) To order the Educator's Guide, simply call … [Read more...] about 4th-6th GradeTeachers: Look What Has Just Arrived!
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A Newby at the Historical Novel Conference
Me with Kate Quinn and Stephanie Dray. These gals rock! I attended my first Historical Novel Society conference last weekend and, y'all, I have found mah people! Seriously, it was so awesome to be around folks who don't roll their eyes when you start talking history but actually share your obsession. Plus, I got to be on a panel about writing fiction set … [Read more...] about A Newby at the Historical Novel Conference
Kids Ask the Darndest Things–Over Skype
A pic of my screen as we said goodbye...The students at Star Prep Academy in California asked so many great questions about my books on Cleopatra (both the biography and novel), I found myself occasionally taken aback. I mean, how do you respond to a young reader who asks what in MY life informed the way I wrote about Cleopatra Selene's relationship with her MOM?Whoa. A future … [Read more...] about Kids Ask the Darndest Things–Over Skype
Donna Jo Napoli, SCBWI WIK Conference, Crystal Kite and School Visits
Last Friday, I attended the writing intensive at the Southern-Breeze SCBWI conference with Donna Jo Napoli. In addition to publishing dozens of books, she is also a linguist from Harvard and a mathematician from MIT. Serious chops.Anyway, I mentioned to her that I particularly love her YA novel, BEAST, which is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. The "Beast" is a … [Read more...] about Donna Jo Napoli, SCBWI WIK Conference, Crystal Kite and School Visits
The Awesomeness of the Decatur Book Festival
VCL Photography. Kendare Blake When I told the fam that I was going to be out most of the weekend with DBF, hubs quirked his head and said, "But you're not speaking this year." Yup. I don't have a new book out, so I wasn't on stage (except to introduce an awesome author--more on that later). But that meant I had more time to … [Read more...] about The Awesomeness of the Decatur Book Festival
