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2018
- Jun 9, 2018 Breaking the Block
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2017
- Nov 13, 2017 Two Writing-Related Events This Month
- Sep 9, 2017 "Book Trailers! Pros and Cons? Do They Help Sales?"
- Jan 8, 2017 On Writing Resolutions vs. To-Do Lists
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2016
- Dec 5, 2016 A Washington Post review of The Magic Words
- Nov 30, 2016 Newsletter Archive
- Sep 11, 2016 Interviews, Articles, and Reviews on THE MAGIC WORDS
- Sep 9, 2016 Q&A of the Month: Quiet Books
- Sep 6, 2016 A Wonderful Release Day, with Gratitude
- Aug 30, 2016 Win a Full Manuscript Critique from Me!
- Aug 29, 2016 Excerpt Now Posted!
- Jul 26, 2016 Upcoming Appearances
- Jul 23, 2016 In Which I Disagree with Maggie Nelson about Relateability (Somewhat)
- Jun 22, 2016 Theatre Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION at Mile Square Theatre
- Jun 1, 2016 The First Professional Review of THE MAGIC WORDS . . .
- May 8, 2016 Welcome to the New Cherylklein.com, and My New Blog!
- Mar 30, 2016 Two New Writing Workshops with Me!
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2015
- Oct 10, 2015 Five Questions for Emil Sher, author of YOUNG MAN WITH CAMERA
- Aug 20, 2015 This Is My Brain on Revising
- Jul 3, 2015 A Verbal Venn Diagram of My Summer 2015 List
- May 25, 2015 Behind the Book AND Five Questions for Megan Morrison, author of GROUNDED: THE ADVENTURES OF RAPUNZEL
- Mar 31, 2015 Five Questions for Lindsay Eyre, author of THE BEST FRIEND BATTLE
- Mar 22, 2015 "The Way It Is," by William Stafford
- Feb 28, 2015 Five Questions for Trent Reedy, author of BURNING NATION
- Feb 19, 2015 Happy News
- Feb 19, 2015 2014 Statistics on Children's/YA Books by Race/Ethnicity
- Feb 4, 2015 Oh My Goodness, I Almost Missed This
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2014
- Dec 24, 2014 2014 Editorial Year in Review
- Dec 22, 2014 A Ramble: The Elements of Writerly Talent and Improvement
- Dec 20, 2014 The Quote File: Talent
- Nov 25, 2014 A New Episode of the Narrative Breakdown & My NYPL Panel on Native American YA Literature
- Nov 22, 2014 Registration Open for Spring 2015 NYU Editing Class
- Nov 3, 2014 Win an Hour's Editorial Consultation with Me!
- Oct 5, 2014 A Terrific Panel: "The Importance of All Children Seeing Themselves in Literature"
- Sep 16, 2014 Some Wise Words from Kirk Lynn
- Sep 14, 2014 Plot Master Class in Brooklyn! A Podcast on Queries! And a Panel on Native Lit!
- Aug 16, 2014 A Ramble: Ferguson, President Obama, Diverse Books, Time and Space
- Jun 21, 2014 The Quote File: Energy
- Jun 6, 2014 A New Conference + Miscellany
- Apr 30, 2014 We Need Diverse Books.
- Mar 30, 2014 Gratitude
- Mar 5, 2014 My Lenten Calendar
- Mar 4, 2014 A Few Brief Things
- Feb 18, 2014 Signal Boost: Stop a Stalker in New Zealand
- Feb 7, 2014 The Quote File: Gustave Flaubert
- Feb 5, 2014 In Defense of CBC Diversity, and on the Complexities of Publishing Diverse Books
- Jan 30, 2014 India Is Everything
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2013
- Dec 15, 2013 A Nomination! A Third Printing! & 2013 Editorial Year in Review
- Dec 8, 2013 On Being a Real ________
- Nov 25, 2013 Registration Now Open for My NYU Editing Class
- Nov 24, 2013 Tumblflowers
- Nov 14, 2013 The Scholastic Spring 2014 Librarian Preview
- Nov 11, 2013 A Valediction, Forbidding Strolling
- Nov 6, 2013 Silent Auction Opportunity: Win an Hour of Editorial Time with Me
- Nov 3, 2013 New Webinar! "Creating Characters Agents Love and Editors Publish: For Middle Grade and YA Novels"
- Oct 27, 2013 "I Sing the Mighty Power of God," by Isaac Watts
- Oct 15, 2013 Two Podcasts! New Class!
- Oct 12, 2013 The Feminist Thing that Irritated the Hell Out of Me about GRAVITY
- Oct 6, 2013 A Wonderful Wedding
- Sep 7, 2013 Quote File: Time
- Aug 18, 2013 A Straightforward Technique to Make Your Writing More Immediate and Effective
- Aug 14, 2013 A Ramble on Likeability in Novels
- Aug 4, 2013 Oh Yeah, Hey, There's This Awesome Podcast I'm On . . .
- Jul 25, 2013 Some Thoughts I Had In Relation to "Quidam" by Cirque du Soleil Tonight
- Jul 10, 2013 The Quote File: Failure
- Jul 7, 2013 The Best Thing I Have Seen This Year
- Jun 16, 2013 Three Useful Terms for Discussing Endings
- May 24, 2013 All About THE FIRE HORSE GIRL: Behind the Book, Q&A, & Giveaway!
- May 23, 2013 A "Breakdown" on Breaking Down a Manuscript; Two Conferences; and a Personal Best
- May 22, 2013 Scholastic Fall 2013 Online Preview
- May 21, 2013 What I'm Publishing: Summer 2013
- May 20, 2013 All About THE PATH OF NAMES: Behind the Book, Q&A, & Giveaway!
- May 14, 2013 MISSION TO TEACH: In Honor of Jhumki Basu
- Apr 28, 2013 Warming Up
- Mar 30, 2013 The Quote File: George Santayana
- Mar 14, 2013 Religion and Fear
- Mar 9, 2013 "Act III, Scene iii" by Madeleine L'Engle
- Feb 17, 2013 BOOK SALE!
- Feb 10, 2013 On Subtext
- Jan 25, 2013 The Scholastic Spring 2013 Preview!
- Jan 20, 2013 Announcing: My Online Plot Master Class!
- Jan 6, 2013 In Which I Tell You to Read This Week's New York Times Magazine, Basically
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2012
- Dec 21, 2012 An Update: Stephanie Trimberger and THE RUBY HEART
- Dec 17, 2012 A Brief Ramble on Character and Self Consistency
- Dec 11, 2012 Q&A: Trent Reedy, author of STEALING AIR
- Dec 1, 2012 A Brief Rant Against My Own Interests, but for My Own Beliefs
- Nov 25, 2012 Southeast Asia in the Autumn: Editors' Boot Camp
- Oct 25, 2012 To Anyone Who Has Ever Blogged About YA Cover Design
- Oct 20, 2012 A Revised Plot Checklist
- Oct 7, 2012 Postscript: Stephanie Trimberger's Book Signing
- Oct 2, 2012 A Chain of News Links
- Oct 1, 2012 All About THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ME: Behind the Book, Q&A, and Giveaway!
- Sep 25, 2012 Because I Needed SOME Way to Freshen Up These Announcements
- Sep 20, 2012 Good People of Seattle! I Have a Mission for You!
- Sep 15, 2012 Breaking Down Bond -- James Bond.
- Sep 9, 2012 Another New Episode of The Narrative Breakdown -- Now with More Bird!
- Sep 5, 2012 New Episode of THE NARRATIVE BREAKDOWN now live!
- Aug 31, 2012 Theory: The Klein Pyramid of Literary Quality
- Aug 30, 2012 Taking a Stand for Standing
- Aug 29, 2012 The Editorial Process, Step by Step
- Aug 28, 2012 How to Get a Job in Publishing, 2012 Edition
- Aug 27, 2012 A Ramble List: the Dinner Table Debate, Religion, Bigotry, and Monkey Brains
- Aug 26, 2012 The Quote File: Ideas
- Aug 25, 2012 "Throwing Away the Alarm Clock" by Charles Bukowski
- Aug 24, 2012 The Editorial Life: My Working Notebooks
- Aug 23, 2012 Narrative Breakdowns, Muggles Editing, Getting a Job, Overseas Travel, and Lovely Links
- Aug 21, 2012 The Quote File: Ursula K. LeGuin
- Aug 20, 2012 Query Holiday Guidelines
- Aug 19, 2012 Five Things I Love about Leah Bobet's ABOVE
- Aug 18, 2012 Some Lists about First Pages
- Aug 17, 2012 "Security," by William Stafford
- Aug 15, 2012 Six Reasons Why Everything in Publishing Takes So Long
- Aug 13, 2012 [This Space Intentionally Left Blank]
- Aug 12, 2012 Creating a Cover: Three Alternate Takes on SECOND SIGHT + Some Thoughts
- Aug 11, 2012 Worlds of Wonders: On Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy, Children's Fantasy, and Paranormal Novels
- Aug 10, 2012 A Quick Post on a Friday: Fall 2012 Preview
- Aug 9, 2012 The Quote File: Progress
- Aug 7, 2012 FAQ: "Is it likely that you'll ever re-open to unsolicited submissions?"
- Aug 6, 2012 See This: "Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective"
- Aug 5, 2012 "God Speaks..." by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Aug 4, 2012 A Plot Excuse to Watch Out For: "But Then Where Would Have Been My Novel?"
- Aug 3, 2012 An Easy, Yummy, Low-Calorie Summer Dessert
- Aug 2, 2012 A Common Sense Constitutional Argument for the Legality of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
- Aug 1, 2012 All-Blogging August (Plus Ask Me Anything)
- Jul 31, 2012 Book of the Moment: GOLD MEDAL SUMMER by Donna Freitas
- Jun 20, 2012 A Second Specification Experiment
- Jun 16, 2012 Two Programs that Keep the Internet from Eating Your Soul + Giveaway Winners!
- May 31, 2012 The Scholastic Fall 2012 Librarian Preview + Giveaway
- May 28, 2012 Diversity in Children's Publishing: Some Conversations
- Apr 29, 2012 My Two Favorite Writing Things This Month
- Apr 7, 2012 Egomaniacal Link & News Roundup
- Mar 18, 2012 Making the Leap
- Mar 4, 2012 A Blogiversary!
- Feb 27, 2012 Q&A: Erin Saldin, author of THE GIRLS OF NO RETURN
- Feb 20, 2012 How I Spent My February Vacation
- Feb 2, 2012 "The Joy of Writing," by Wislawa Szymborska
- Jan 29, 2012 SCBWI Winter Conference Links Roundup & Submissions Guidelines
- Jan 26, 2012 Editorial Palavering: Martha Mihalick, Editor at Greenwillow Books / HarperColllins
- Jan 24, 2012 New Talk! "Some Observations on Electric Eels"
- Jan 22, 2012 Revision Techniques: Anything to Share?
- Jan 22, 2012 A Quick Ramble: The Power of Young Adult Reading
- Jan 17, 2012 Kidlit Drink Night at SCBWI
- Jan 11, 2012 Racing for the Quilt
- Jan 7, 2012 Two More Things I Love about IRISES (or, A Brief Comment on Economic Diversity in YA, Women's Wanting, & Writing Across Identity)
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2011
- Dec 28, 2011 Behind the Book: IRISES by Francisco X. Stork
- Dec 18, 2011 Five Quotes, Three Announcements, and One Link
- Dec 12, 2011 Behind the Book: Three Things Writers Can Learn from Liar's Moon, Part III
- Dec 11, 2011 Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili
- Dec 9, 2011 Behind the Book: Three Things Writers Can Learn from Liar's Moon, Part II
- Dec 7, 2011 Behind the Book: Three Things Writers Can Learn from Liar's Moon, Part I
- Nov 28, 2011 Book Giveaway Contest Winners + Spring 2012 Video Preview
- Nov 22, 2011 Q&A: Joanna Pearson, Author of The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills
- Nov 20, 2011 "The Ballad of Erica Levine" by Bob Blue
- Nov 14, 2011 CLEOPATRA'S MOON Chat Transcript
- Nov 9, 2011 STARCROSSED on Sale!
- Nov 4, 2011 The Quote File: Character/s
- Oct 31, 2011 Twitter Chat on 11/14 and Q&A Now with Vicky Alvear Shecter
- Oct 29, 2011 Butternut Squash and Black Bean Chili
- Oct 24, 2011 A Walk Up Greene Street, with a Little SoHo History and Class Warfare Thrown In
- Oct 23, 2011 Mini Me
- Oct 11, 2011 I Swear I Just Noticed This Today (+ Book Giveaway Contest!)
- Oct 9, 2011 A Visit to Occupy Wall Street (Plus a Small Ramble on Economics)
- Sep 29, 2011 Wake Me Up When September Ends
- Sep 25, 2011 Knock Knock. Who's There? 33 Years. 33 Years Who?
- Sep 12, 2011 "Why Do So Few Blacks Study Creative Writing?" by Cornelius Eady
- Sep 7, 2011 Oh, My Poor, Lovely, Ever So Neglected Blog . . .
- Aug 14, 2011 The Quote File: Change
- Aug 5, 2011 A Walk Up Crosby Street
- Jul 21, 2011 Embarrassed Blogmistress Housekeeping Post
- Jul 9, 2011 Quidditch Croquet Rules!
- Jul 4, 2011 The Quote File: America, Patriotism, Democracy, Government, Country
- Jun 30, 2011 Nine Questions and Answers About Writing
- Jun 23, 2011 Plot Questions
- Jun 13, 2011 A Ramble: June Joys and #YASaves
- Jun 5, 2011 Announcing: A Plot + Structure Webinar!
- May 25, 2011 For SECOND SIGHT Readers: Some Further Thoughts on Emotional Points & Patterns
- May 21, 2011 Scholastic Summer/Fall 2011 Preview
- May 18, 2011 Watch Trent on the Today Show!
- May 2, 2011 "The Answer," by Robinson Jeffers
- Apr 29, 2011 Diversity in YA Tour!
- Apr 26, 2011 Writers: What Are Your Rules?
- Apr 17, 2011 If You Like It, Then There's Only One Thing You Should Do.
- Apr 7, 2011 "Since the Majority of Me" by Philip Larkin
- Apr 3, 2011 Thank You, Jimmy Fallon
- Mar 31, 2011 A Ramble: Invisible Ink
- Mar 24, 2011 The Quote File: Secrets
- Mar 17, 2011 And More Fun Interviews!
- Mar 17, 2011 All Aflutter
- Mar 11, 2011 Happy (and Scary) Book Day to Me!
- Mar 8, 2011 La La La
- Mar 6, 2011 SECOND SIGHT Now Available for Preorder! + Anticipation + Next Kidlit Drink Night
- Feb 17, 2011 Terrific Brooklyn Book Sale!
- Feb 17, 2011 The Proof Is in the Pudding
- Feb 16, 2011 Q&A: Francisco X. Stork, author of MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD
- Feb 7, 2011 More on SECOND SIGHT
- Feb 4, 2011 Blogiversary and Book Cover!
- Jan 30, 2011 A Ramble: Kindling, Including a Method for Dealing with Writerly Dramatic Despair
- Jan 24, 2011 Behind the Book: WORDS IN THE DUST, + An Opportunity to Help Afghan Women
- Jan 21, 2011 Nature Abhors Them -- But They're Necessary Once in a While
- Jan 10, 2011 Thought for the Day
- Jan 9, 2011 My First Review of SECOND SIGHT!
- Jan 3, 2011 A Ramble: Eastern Standard Time
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2010
- Dec 16, 2010 Apropos of Nothing
- Dec 12, 2010 Video: Trent Reedy & I Discuss WORDS IN THE DUST
- Dec 8, 2010 Next Kidlit Drink Night: Monday, December 13
- Nov 28, 2010 A Mid-Line-Edit Ramble on Line-Editing
- Nov 13, 2010 Two Pithy Poems about Existence
- Nov 9, 2010 In Which I Make Up for My Lameness with Cute Boys Singing
- Oct 28, 2010 Q&A: Neil Connelly, author of THE MIRACLE STEALER
- Oct 27, 2010 My Fall 2010 Books: MAD AT MOMMY by Komako Sakai
- Oct 24, 2010 My Fall 2010 Books: THE MIRACLE STEALER by Neil Connelly
- Oct 23, 2010 Movie Recommendation: HOWL
- Oct 22, 2010 The Scholastic Spring 2011 Librarian Webcast
- Oct 20, 2010 Talk to Me: What Makes You Buy a Book?
- Oct 12, 2010 See My Friend's Movie!
- Oct 9, 2010 Q&A: Elizabeth C. Bunce, author of STARCROSSED
- Oct 3, 2010 "In My Family," by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Sep 27, 2010 Cover Concepts for My Book!
- Sep 25, 2010 Some Things I'm Reading, Watching, & Thinking About
- Sep 24, 2010 My Fall 2010 Books: STARCROSSED by Elizabeth C. Bunce
- Sep 20, 2010 My Fall 2010 Books: BOBBY THE BRAVE (SOMETIMES)
- Sep 19, 2010 Three E-mail Boxes
- Sep 8, 2010 All Thumb(nail)s
- Sep 4, 2010 On the Cultural Contributions of Switzerland
- Sep 1, 2010 The Genius of Taylor Swift, and a Ramble about Romance
- Aug 29, 2010 Ten Things I've Learned in Ten Years in New York
- Aug 19, 2010 More than "Nothing Left to Lose"
- Aug 15, 2010 Insert Your Own Title Here
- Aug 7, 2010 Flap Copy Contest Winners!
- Aug 4, 2010 Midweek Miscellany
- Jul 27, 2010 SQUIDS 101: Punctuation: Emdashes
- Jul 14, 2010 A Flap Copy Contest!
- Jul 8, 2010 One Way to Stand Up Against Whitewashing
- Jul 6, 2010 Editorial Palavering: Jill Santopolo
- Jun 30, 2010 SQUIDS 101: Punctuation: Colons
- Jun 24, 2010 A Little Roundup Pre-ALA
- Jun 21, 2010 SQUIDS 101: Punctuation: Semicolons
- Jun 15, 2010 Becoming Argentina
- Jun 13, 2010 SQUIDS 101: Punctuation: Commas
- Jun 6, 2010 Q&A: Erin McCahan, author of I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU SOMEONE ELSE
- May 29, 2010 Nice News!
- May 28, 2010 Flap Copy Update: THE MIRACLE STEALER
- May 19, 2010 "The Journey," by Mary Oliver
- May 16, 2010 Video Sunday: Great Literary Love Songs
- May 13, 2010 Now in Paperback: An Absolutely Bobby Curse
- May 10, 2010 Guest Behind the Book: MY INVISIBLE BOYFRIEND
- May 4, 2010 A Blast from the Past; or, Desperately Seeking Melissa W.'s Pants
- May 3, 2010 Quote File: Proverbs
- Apr 25, 2010 A Speech, THREE Drink Nights, Two Panels, and an Announcement
- Apr 14, 2010 "Beauty," by Tony Hoagland
- Apr 11, 2010 Two Lovely Thoughts on Faith
- Apr 8, 2010 The Scholastic Fall 2010 Librarian Preview Webcast
- Apr 2, 2010 Poetry for Good Friday: "Little Gidding IV," by T. S. Eliot
- Mar 31, 2010 A "Baby Got Book" video!
- Mar 29, 2010 Nine Questions & Answers
- Mar 26, 2010 Status Updates
- Mar 20, 2010 An 110-Year-Old Rejection Letter
- Mar 15, 2010 Of Harry Potter, My Grandfather, and Five Uses of Reading
- Mar 9, 2010 Several Habits of Highly Effective Writers' Conferences: Critiques
- Mar 6, 2010 Several Habits of Highly Effective Writers' Conferences: First Pages Sessions
- Feb 28, 2010 Post-Breezy Bits
- Feb 22, 2010 Metaphysical Monday: Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Feb 15, 2010 Amazing, Marvelous, Splendiferous Book Sale! + Another NYC Recommendation
- Feb 11, 2010 Time Warp for a Tradition!
- Feb 11, 2010 Spelling Out the Specification Experiment
- Feb 2, 2010 A Silly Specification Experiment
- Jan 28, 2010 In Which I Give You Three Things You Want! Maybe.
- Jan 22, 2010 SUPERZERO, Superbly
- Jan 22, 2010 The Best YA You Haven't Read
- Jan 18, 2010 Yay, MARCELO! Yay, MORIBITO!
- Jan 16, 2010 A Chance to Twitter Chatter
- Jan 10, 2010 Some Good and Important Things
- Jan 8, 2010 Another Terrific Editorial Christmas Present
- Jan 3, 2010 How to Write a Great Query Letter: An Example That Worked
- Jan 1, 2010 For the New Year: "Finishing the Hat"
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2009
- Dec 27, 2009 A Goodbye
- Dec 18, 2009 The Brooklyn Arden 2009 Holiday Gift Guide
- Dec 14, 2009 More Flap Copy Shenanigans
- Dec 10, 2009 A Little Flap Copy Reader-Response Question
- Dec 10, 2009 Next Kidlit Drink Night!
- Dec 6, 2009 The Quote File: God
- Dec 4, 2009 Decisions, Decisions
- Dec 1, 2009 Twitter Chat with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
- Nov 25, 2009 An Unexpected "Thank You"
- Nov 20, 2009 Those Interested in Issues of Race and Children's Literature . . .
- Nov 15, 2009 On Protests and Publishing
- Nov 12, 2009 I'm Ba-a-ck!
- Nov 1, 2009 Welcome, SLJ Readers! + Next Kidlit Drinks Night
- Oct 31, 2009 In Which Two of My Favorite Things Come Together in Random Awesomeness
- Oct 24, 2009 How Do I Love Plot Diagrams? Let Me Count the Ways.
- Oct 18, 2009 Midmonth Hello
- Oct 1, 2009 Talking and Writing, Past, Future, and Present
- Sep 29, 2009 Twitter Chatter Reminder: Tomorrow!
- Sep 23, 2009 In Which I Ride A Segway
- Sep 20, 2009 Would You Rather . . .
- Sep 17, 2009 Defining Good Writing (Possibly Sententious)
- Sep 10, 2009 An Oversight in My Submissions Guidelines, Now Corrected
- Sep 7, 2009 And Looking Ahead to Spring . . .
- Aug 27, 2009 Announcing: Kidlit Drink Night and Race for the Cure
- Aug 26, 2009 In Response to "In Response to [My Previous Post]"
- Aug 26, 2009 An Open Letter to Agents, with a Modest Proposal Regarding Submissions
- Aug 23, 2009 Your Missions, Should You Choose to Accept Them
- Aug 18, 2009 The Brooklyn Arden Blog Review Policy
- Aug 13, 2009 The Arthur A. Levine Books Fall 2009 List
- Aug 5, 2009 The Quote File: Voltaire
- Aug 2, 2009 Two Easy-Peasy Recipesies and Some Church Announcements
- Jul 29, 2009 A Thank You Speech, A Kidlit Drink Night, and My Current Favorite Video in Life
- Jul 21, 2009 They Are the Champions, My Friends
- Jul 14, 2009 Celebrity Guest Judges! and Sundry Other Good News
- Jul 8, 2009 Some Summertime Silliness: The Thomas Bowdler Fiction Contest
- Jul 5, 2009 Four Techniques to Get at the Emotional Heart of Your Story
- Jul 1, 2009 Announcing: My Book Project!
- Jun 23, 2009 Critiques for a Good Cause
- Jun 22, 2009 Projects, Patterns, and Personalities
- Jun 15, 2009 Some True-Life Must-Reads
- Jun 13, 2009 A Ramble: Thinking Out Loud about Book Blogging and Discussion
- Jun 10, 2009 Brooklyn Arden Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
- Jun 10, 2009 Blue Website! New Talk!
- Jun 5, 2009 Theory: A Definition of YA Literature
- May 31, 2009 How to Be A Twitter Writer? Wittier and Rather Tighter.
- May 26, 2009 Memorialize This
- May 17, 2009 A Pub Plan and a Poll
- May 14, 2009 New Yorkers: Take Action for Marriage Equality
- May 12, 2009 I have been half in love with easeful Death
- May 9, 2009 Squee!
- May 6, 2009 And More Appearances!
- May 3, 2009 Me at LeakyCon and Harry Potter in Paris
- Apr 26, 2009 Bona nit de Barcelona!
- Apr 21, 2009 Behind the Book: Marcelo in the Real World
- Apr 17, 2009 My Book at the White House!
- Apr 14, 2009 How to Get a Seat on a Crowded NYC Subway Train
- Apr 4, 2009 A Rule of Thumb for Submissions
- Apr 1, 2009 Free E-Book of The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- Apr 1, 2009 Message for the Day
- Mar 23, 2009 Events. Media. Cute Animals. A Poll.
- Mar 19, 2009 In Which a Gauntlet Is Thrown with Great Force.
- Mar 10, 2009 FAQ #9 (I think?): Questions About Voice
- Mar 4, 2009 The Goal of the Editing Process, As Seen on My Office Door
- Mar 4, 2009 WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY!
- Feb 27, 2009 SQUID Friday
- Feb 26, 2009 Salmagundi Thursday
- Feb 20, 2009 BOOK SALE!
- Feb 18, 2009 The Song in My Head This Week: "On the Radio" by Regina Spektor
- Feb 16, 2009 Things I Have Learned While Proofreading This Evening
- Feb 16, 2009 Foursquare
- Feb 8, 2009 And What Does the Swedish Chef Say When He's Stressed?
- Feb 5, 2009 Three Excellent Things
- Feb 4, 2009 Happy Blogiversary!
- Feb 1, 2009 Behind the Book: ABSOLUTELY MAYBE by Lisa Yee, Part I
- Feb 1, 2009 Some Notes on the Kindle
- Jan 31, 2009 A Character-Based View of Plot
- Jan 28, 2009 Kidlit Drink Night -- SCBWI Winter Conference Edition
- Jan 28, 2009 This Makes Me So Happy.
- Jan 26, 2009 So, I Had a Nice Day Today.
- Jan 25, 2009 On Occasional Poems
- Jan 20, 2009 "Praise Song for the Day," by Elizabeth Alexander
- Jan 17, 2009 Four Little Writing Things + Poll
- Jan 15, 2009 The Quote File: Work
- Jan 10, 2009 One Last Request for Writerly Help
- Jan 10, 2009 A Hypothesis of Sweets
- Jan 8, 2009 Oy Vey: Voice, and Also Twilight
- Jan 3, 2009 Isaac Hayes: Rolling in His Grave or Digging It?
- Jan 2, 2009 Webkeeping
- Jan 2, 2009 The Arthur A. Levine Books Spring 2009 List
- Jan 1, 2009 Happy New Year!
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2008
- Dec 21, 2008 The Weirdest Christmas Hiatus Post Ever
- Dec 18, 2008 "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe" by Elizabeth Alexander
- Dec 13, 2008 My Man in Black
- Dec 9, 2008 Hooray for Elizabeth & A CURSE DARK AS GOLD!
- Dec 7, 2008 HP, Jane Austen, Twilight, Recipes, LOST, Movie Pitches, Baseball, Cassons, Words, and Old Ladies/Politics.
- Dec 3, 2008 Silly Poll: Socks or Underwear?
- Dec 2, 2008 Query Letter Cliche Alert: ". . . Or Did She?"
- Nov 30, 2008 An Experiment
- Nov 30, 2008 Brooklyn Arden Reviews: Two Modern National Epics
- Nov 27, 2008 For the Fruit of All Creation
- Nov 24, 2008 Flap Copy: Three Takes on OPERATION YES
- Nov 20, 2008 Pollbearers
- Nov 20, 2008 Pumpkin Pie Crumble Cake
- Nov 18, 2008 Reason #14873 to Love New York City: the Masstransiscope
- Nov 10, 2008 Two Excellent Upcoming Events
- Nov 7, 2008 "He Attempts to Love His Neighbours," by Alden Nowlan
- Nov 6, 2008 Full Circle
- Nov 1, 2008 An Exhortation: 72 Hours
- Oct 31, 2008 SQUIDding Around
- Oct 22, 2008 Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird
- Oct 19, 2008 Perpetual Plot Problems?
- Oct 17, 2008 On the Candidates' Records -- Some Links
- Oct 12, 2008 Spreading Some Canvass
- Oct 12, 2008 "Die, Vampire, Die!" from [title of show]
- Oct 9, 2008 Behind the Book: CROSSING TO PARADISE
- Oct 6, 2008 Wanted: Race for the Cure t-shirts
- Oct 3, 2008 Movin' on Up
- Sep 28, 2008 "Teen for God" by Dar Williams
- Sep 26, 2008 The End of an Era
- Sep 22, 2008 A Very Important To-Do List
- Sep 21, 2008 Gaaah!! -- A Musing on Characters and Plot
- Sep 20, 2008 The Quote File: Bertrand Russell
- Sep 15, 2008 Wonderful Essay about Editing
- Sep 13, 2008 Of Palin, Politics, and Plot Twists
- Sep 10, 2008 Moving Sale!
- Sep 8, 2008 The Election Approacheth
- Sep 2, 2008 Interns Wanted
- Aug 27, 2008 "Strange Things Are Afoot at the Circle K."
- Aug 20, 2008 Two Poems about Peaches
- Aug 16, 2008 My Terminus Speech + My Four Favorite Books on Writing
- Aug 12, 2008 Three Thoughts
- Aug 8, 2008 FAQ #Something: Do I have to finish the manuscript before I send you a query letter or the first two chapters?
- Aug 5, 2008 The Quote File: Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Jul 31, 2008 Wish Me Luck with American Airlines.
- Jul 27, 2008 You Can Check Out Any Time You Like . . .
- Jul 17, 2008 Away for Vacay -- Hooray!
- Jul 12, 2008 Slothful Saturday Scoops
- Jul 10, 2008 The Arthur A. Levine Books Fall 2008 List
- Jul 9, 2008 Those of You Who Love Goofy Animal Names or Pictures
- Jul 6, 2008 All Good Things
- Jun 28, 2008 Also for Fellow Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris, and/or Musical Fans
- Jun 28, 2008 The Annual Frivolous Foot Photo, and Excellent Revision Advice
- Jun 26, 2008 Interview with Editor Janet Silver
- Jun 23, 2008 The Quote File: Truth
- Jun 21, 2008 More New York City Coolness
- Jun 19, 2008 Pollarities
- Jun 15, 2008 Live from New York
- Jun 11, 2008 What Words Are Worth
- Jun 8, 2008 A Character Questionnaire
- Jun 4, 2008 Poll Position
- Jun 4, 2008 Happiness of the Week: My New Evening Gown
- May 26, 2008 Behind the Book: MORIBITO: GUARDIAN OF THE SPIRIT
- May 24, 2008 Pet Plot Thoughts
- May 23, 2008 Of References and Readers
- May 20, 2008 Utter Silliness
- May 15, 2008 Three Links That Made Me Laugh Hard This Week
- May 12, 2008 Welcome to the Neighborhood
- May 7, 2008 The Quote File: Sentences
- May 4, 2008 Happinesses of the Week
- Apr 30, 2008 "Poetics" by Howard Nemerov
- Apr 28, 2008 Squids 101: What I Like to See in an Artist's Portfolio
- Apr 26, 2008 Baby Got Book
- Apr 25, 2008 "Since There's No Help," by Michael Drayton
- Apr 24, 2008 Picking Up the Place
- Apr 21, 2008 A Request from Arthur
- Apr 21, 2008 Eye of the Tiger
- Apr 18, 2008 "homage to my hips" by Lucille Clifton
- Apr 15, 2008 My 500th Post, Just As I Like It
- Apr 13, 2008 All Thou Writers for Children
- Apr 12, 2008 "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," by Walt Whitman
- Apr 6, 2008 Announcements, Admonitions, and Happinesses for the Past Two Weeks
- Apr 1, 2008 Guest "Behind the Book" Blog: Rachel Griffiths on DEEP DOWN POPULAR
- Mar 30, 2008 Cai and Coffee
- Mar 29, 2008 Science Fiction Saturday
- Mar 26, 2008 One More HP Interview
- Mar 24, 2008 An Excerpt: MORIBITO: GUARDIAN OF THE SPIRIT
- Mar 19, 2008 Boy Wizards, Barack Speaks, Bone Marrow, and Happiness of the Week
- Mar 17, 2008 A Grave in Green-Wood
- Mar 15, 2008 The Quote File: Books
- Mar 14, 2008 Sunday Afternoon on the Coast of La Lac Michigan
- Mar 11, 2008 Three-for-All III: Happiness of the Week: Two Boots Pizza
- Mar 11, 2008 Three-for-All II: The Author-Editor Relationship
- Mar 11, 2008 Three-for-All I: Being the Change
- Mar 6, 2008 Q&A: Elizabeth C. Bunce, Author of A CURSE DARK AS GOLD
- Mar 5, 2008 To My Fellow Democrats
- Mar 4, 2008 A Book Trailer Dark as Gold
- Feb 28, 2008 Behind the Book: TIMOTHY AND THE STRONG PAJAMAS
- Feb 27, 2008 Whew
- Feb 27, 2008 Two Cool Applications
- Feb 22, 2008 Title and Tittle-Tattle
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2007
- Dec 28, 2007 Lovely Laziness
- Dec 21, 2007 Random Location Post
- Dec 18, 2007 Behind the Book: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
- Dec 13, 2007 Brooklyn Arden Review: "The Golden Compass" film
- Dec 9, 2007 Reminder: Kidlit Drink Night Monday Night!
- Dec 8, 2007 Brooklyn Arden Review: "Doris to Darlene, A Cautionary Valentine"
- Dec 6, 2007 Little Things
- Dec 5, 2007 Miss Dynamite, Episode IV and Last
- Dec 2, 2007 The Frog in La-La-Land
- Nov 28, 2007 Kidlit Drink Night, Holiday Edition
- Nov 26, 2007 Miss Dynamite, Episode III
- Nov 25, 2007 Briefly, Thankfully, Smartly
- Nov 19, 2007 Robert's Snow Reminder: Auctions Begin Today!
- Nov 19, 2007 Miss Dynamite, Episode II
- Nov 16, 2007 Miss Dynamite, Episode I
- Nov 11, 2007 Back and Barack
- Nov 9, 2007 Robert's Snow: Mary Peterson
- Nov 6, 2007 Dim Bulbs
- Nov 4, 2007 Pairs Spating
- Nov 3, 2007 The Quote File: Mignon McLaughlin
- Nov 1, 2007 Robert's Snow: Melissa Iwai
- Oct 30, 2007 Some Killer Klein Croquet Correspondence
- Oct 29, 2007 Robert's Snow: Sean Qualls
- Oct 28, 2007 Robert's Snow: Barbara Garrison
- Oct 27, 2007 In the Arms of SQUIDs
- Oct 22, 2007 Dumbledore, We'll Fight for You Tonight
- Oct 18, 2007 Scrambled-Brain Ramble
- Oct 16, 2007 Robert's Snow: Selina Alko
- Oct 15, 2007 Discount Theatre Tickets: "A Feminine Ending"
- Oct 8, 2007 And Now an Informational Question
- Oct 8, 2007 An Embarrassment of Riches
- Oct 6, 2007 A Technical Question
- Oct 1, 2007 Breaking Through Bloggers' Block
- Sep 22, 2007 The Zombie Game -- GAAAAAAME!!!
- Sep 21, 2007 Read This Now: "The Feast of Love" by Charles Baxter
- Sep 14, 2007 Abridged Classics: Becoming Jane
- Sep 11, 2007 Brooklyn Arden Review: "High School Musical 2"
- Sep 11, 2007 My Friend Jonathan on "The Giving Tree"
- Sep 6, 2007 A Pet Peeve in Passing
- Sep 3, 2007 End of Summer Video: Ron's Slip 'n Slide Extravaganza
- Aug 29, 2007 Brooklyn Arden Review: "100 Saints You Should Know"
- Aug 29, 2007 Writing Tips from the Presbyterians
- Aug 26, 2007 On Writing and Faith, and Thoughts Running Free
- Aug 23, 2007 A Jane Austen Reading Calendar
- Aug 19, 2007 Quotidiana
- Aug 14, 2007 Three Minor News Items and Moving Pictures
- Aug 8, 2007 Discount Theatre Tickets: "100 Saints You Should Know"
- Aug 6, 2007 Seven Reasons Why People Love Harry Potter
- Aug 5, 2007 In Which "Shaft" Once Again Saves the Day
- Aug 4, 2007 Cards and Characters
- Jul 29, 2007 Interns Wanted
- Jul 28, 2007 Racing for the Cure 2007
- Jul 28, 2007 Where the Magic Happens
- Jul 26, 2007 Back to Harry: News (including Incredible Famousness), Thoughts, and a Theory
- Jul 23, 2007 Now for Something Completely Un-HP-Related: Recent Romantic Comedies
- Jul 22, 2007 Some Thoughts on "Deathly Hallows"
- Jul 21, 2007 Harry and We PotterHeads
- Jul 20, 2007 On Harry Eve
- Jul 16, 2007 And the Incredible Famousness Continues!
- Jul 15, 2007 Vacation Notations
- Jul 6, 2007 Keith Olbermann on the Libby Commutation and Bush vs. Nixon
- Jul 3, 2007 On Hiatus
- Jul 2, 2007 Ten Miracles I Usually Take for Granted
- Jun 29, 2007 In Which I Become INCREDIBLY FAMOUS!!!
- Jun 25, 2007 The Final Final *Final* Picture-Book Talk Now Online . . .
- Jun 23, 2007 Picture-Book Talk Now Online, and Contest Winners Announced
- Jun 21, 2007 Woo. Hoo.
- Jun 19, 2007 Request for Help, Contest, and Idea Free to a Good Home
- Jun 17, 2007 Also
- Jun 17, 2007 FAQ #7: About Requested Revisions
- Jun 14, 2007 Principles of Line-Editing
- Jun 13, 2007 F&Gee Whiz!
- Jun 10, 2007 Addendum to "Brooklyn Arden Review: Once"
- Jun 10, 2007 By the Way . . .
- Jun 10, 2007 Brooklyn Arden Review: "Once"
- Jun 8, 2007 "Deathly Hallows" Deluxe Cover Art
- Jun 4, 2007 8 Things to Know about Me
- May 31, 2007 Confessions of a Justified Book Buyer
- May 26, 2007 Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
- May 24, 2007 Curried Couscous Salad with Dried Sweet Cranberries
- May 19, 2007 Saturday Liveblogging, Part III
- May 19, 2007 Saturday Work Liveblog, Part II
- May 19, 2007 Saturday Work Liveblog
- May 13, 2007 Luck Be A Lady
- May 9, 2007 Book Illness Alert!
- May 6, 2007 Q&A: Lisa Yee, author of SO TOTALLY EMILY EBERS
- May 4, 2007 Intimations and Promulgations
- May 1, 2007 A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska
- Apr 29, 2007 Two Sonnets I Associate with Carleton College
- Apr 28, 2007 "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed," by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Apr 26, 2007 "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," by John Donne
- Apr 25, 2007 Daemons, Links, and Kid Lit Drinks
- Apr 24, 2007 "You Must Accept," by Kate Light
- Apr 23, 2007 "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," by John Keats
- Apr 22, 2007 "In the Middle," by Barbara Crooker
- Apr 21, 2007 The Quote File: Poetry
- Apr 20, 2007 "To Be in Love," by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Apr 19, 2007 From "The Lady's Not for Burning," by Christopher Fry
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2006
- Dec 27, 2006 Q. What do pirates need after a long sail? A. Arr and Arr!
- Dec 21, 2006 Healthy Owl Lads
- Dec 17, 2006 Chili When It's Chilly
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- Nov 27, 2006 Rethinking the Haggard Case
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- Nov 19, 2006 My Backup Career Plan
- Nov 16, 2006 Allegory, Schmallegory: A Big Fat "Feh" for "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"
- Nov 15, 2006 78
- Nov 14, 2006 Brooklyn Arden Reviews: "Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky" and "Northanger Abbey"
- Nov 11, 2006 Best Business Name of the Day
- Nov 11, 2006 25 1/3 + Various Beginnings
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- Nov 7, 2006 Celebrity Silliness on a Serious Day
- Nov 4, 2006 The Title Game + the Millionaire Game
- Nov 2, 2006 Two Items of Happy News
- Nov 2, 2006 A Writing Exercise: Fun with Spam
- Oct 30, 2006 Happy Harryween!
- Oct 29, 2006 "Hard Rain" by Tony Hoagland
- Oct 28, 2006 Discount Theatre Tickets: "Floyd and Clea under the Western Sky"
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- Oct 15, 2006 Farewell, My Lovely
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- Oct 11, 2006 "At the Corner": An Experiment
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- Jul 16, 2006 Experiencing Technical Difficulties
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- Jul 8, 2006 Home Improvements
- Jul 6, 2006 And Continuing the Wizard-Rock Theme . . .
- Jul 6, 2006 In Which Cheryl Becomes a Wizard-Rock Groupie
- Jul 2, 2006 Just in Time for My Sister's Wedding . . .
- Jul 1, 2006 A Cell-Phone Question for the Collective Brain
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- Jun 25, 2006 Quizzical; or, Five Fun Ways to Kill Three Minutes
- Jun 24, 2006 "In Praise of My Bed," by Meredith Holmes
- Jun 22, 2006 Power (or Lack-of-Power) Post
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- Jun 17, 2006 A totally smug and immature post
- Jun 16, 2006 How to Write a Love Story, Part V
- Jun 15, 2006 How to Write a Love Story, Part IV
- Jun 15, 2006 Squid squid squid squid squid squid squid squid
- Jun 14, 2006 How to Write a Love Story, Part III
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2005
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- Dec 23, 2005 'Twas Two Nights Before Christmas . . .
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- Nov 24, 2005 For the Beauty of the Earth
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- Nov 15, 2005 Because Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Are *So* Not Hot
- Nov 11, 2005 Sniff Sniff
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- Nov 8, 2005 Marathon Mania
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- Oct 29, 2005 Even More Talking
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- Oct 23, 2005 Book Randomness Tag!
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- Oct 22, 2005 Things I Have Been Thinking about This Week
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- Oct 16, 2005 "A Color of the Sky," by Tony Hoagland
- Oct 13, 2005 Serendipity: Four Pictures
- Oct 12, 2005 Present / Perfect / Tense
- Oct 9, 2005 A Recipe for Eyeliner
- Oct 6, 2005 Excellent Word of the Day
- Oct 4, 2005 Writing is exciting / And baseball is like writing: / You can never tell with either how it will go. -- Marianne Moore
- Oct 1, 2005 Sparkly Shoes
- Sep 28, 2005 The Quote File: Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Sep 26, 2005 Not Exactly the Oscars
- Sep 23, 2005 "The Perfect Day," by Cheryl B. Klein
- Sep 22, 2005 "The Perfect Day," by Alice B. Parsons
- Sep 20, 2005 Words to Live By
- Sep 18, 2005 News 'n' Notes
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- Sep 12, 2005 The Happy List: Words, + Brooklyn Arden Contest!
- Sep 10, 2005 9/11, Symbols and Scars
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- Sep 6, 2005 Happy List Addendum: In the Pink
- Sep 5, 2005 How can a natural disaster be political? This is how.
- Sep 5, 2005 The Happy List, End of Summer 2005 edition
- Sep 3, 2005 And the fun never stops
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- Aug 30, 2005 "Under a Certain Little Star," by Wislawa Szymborska
- Aug 27, 2005 In Praise of Puppet Peoples
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- Aug 22, 2005 Miscellanea Rusticana
- Aug 18, 2005 The Quote File: Happiness
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