Starring… Rex – a 16 year old Mexican-American coder Cai – a 16 year old Chinese blogger/activist Tunde – a 14 year old Nigerian engineer who up-cycles garbage into technology for his Nigerian village These teens are online friends who get the opportunity to meet IRL (in real life) for the first time when they’reContinue reading “Book Review -GENIUS: THE GAME by Leopoldo Gout”
Author Archives: Rebecca J. Allen
MORE BANG FOR YOUR BOOK, a series on book marketing, interviews Karin Lefranc
Karin’s debut picture book, I Want To Eat Your Books, launched September, 2015. She talks with us today about all she learned from that book launch. FoWP: Karin, readers have fallen in love with your zombie and the boy who tries to keep him from devouring every book in the school. A bigContinue reading “MORE BANG FOR YOUR BOOK, a series on book marketing, interviews Karin Lefranc”
Author Chat: Karin Lefranc talks about her debut picture book — I WANT TO EAT YOUR BOOKS
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I have lived in five countries but am now settled in a quiet Connecticut town with my French husband and brood of three girls and one boy. Apart from a few years owning a children’s store, I have always worked in publishing from newspapers to books.Continue reading “Author Chat: Karin Lefranc talks about her debut picture book — I WANT TO EAT YOUR BOOKS”
What I learned from Pitch Wars last year even though I wasn’t picked as a mentee.
Pitch wars is such an awesome contest! Last year I learned so much from it and I didn’t even make it in. How? Lots of ways. First, I received a few query and/or first page critiques from former mentors and mentees who were offering them on the Pitch Wars feed. The Twitter writing community is soContinue reading “What I learned from Pitch Wars last year even though I wasn’t picked as a mentee.”
A shout out to two soon-to-be-released middle grade reads.
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall – Set in the 1960’s, this story dives into the life of Arthur T. Owens, a boy who picks up a brick and throws it at an old trash picker. Instead of sending Arthur to juvie, the judge sentences him to do 120 hours of community serviceContinue reading “A shout out to two soon-to-be-released middle grade reads.”
A Few Great Middle Grade Books for Your TBR List
After I finished patting myself on the back for reaching my 2015 reading goal in June in this post, it occurred to me that a few of my recent reads weren’t getting the “air time” they deserve. So while really enjoyed Cinder by Marissa Meyer and The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater, you don’t needContinue reading “A Few Great Middle Grade Books for Your TBR List”
How I Hit My 2015 Reading Goal in June.
2015 was the first year I had a goal for the number of books I wanted to read. In previous years, I read books, but not as many as I would have liked. There were always books that came up in writerly discussions that I felt I should have read, but hadn’t gotten to. IContinue reading “How I Hit My 2015 Reading Goal in June.”
Rebecca J. Allen 