I’ve been talking a lot here on the blog about Roving Pack and the scrappy bunch of characters that have consumed so much of my creative life for the past few years and are right now so incredibly close to being out in the world and in your hands, tucked into your backpacks for subway …
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I think it’s finally starting to sink in for me that Roving Pack will be here in just a couple of short months. With the manuscript safely to the fabulous layout person, i’ve begun turning my attention to plans for the release – online, in new york, in other cities, and the European tour that …
If you’ve been following my blog in the last month or so it’s no surprise to you that the death of Maurice Sendak hit me hard. He was one of my favorite authors, and truly an inspiration to all of us who try to do dangerous things with our stories, to reach people, and tell …
This has been quite the weekend for Roving Pack . I sat and actually looked at a calendar- oh goodness! It’s really hard to believe just *how * soon the release actually is! I know the summer is just going to fly by which is a little nerve racking, but mostly it’s exciting. I’m so. …
I scheduled this to post yesterday, but instead the interent ate it! Ack! My apologies for the unexpected delay but I’m thrilled to be a stop on the blog tour for Katherine Scott Nelson’s novella “Have You Seen Me” which is a Lambda Literary Award finalist this year. I was thrilled to crack open the …
This weekend I was lucky enough to have the chance to head out of town with Kestryl for an artist retreat! We brought the dogs and a whole bunch of outlines and plans for the work we each individually wanted to focus on and headed upstate. We spent the long weekend in an adorable cabin …
I’ve learned over the years that next to the feedback of readers who have been impacted by your work, there are few things more powerful than having authors who you really respect tell you they read your book, and were hailed by it. There’s something about having someone whose books you’ve looked up to and …
This morning I’m struggling with the news that Maurice Sendak has just died. There is an obituary in The New York Times and I’m sitting here crying and thinking about the impact his words and pictures and the impact they have had on my work, the way I approach writing and the stories that I need …
When DL King asked me to be a stop on the blog tour for her new anthology ‘The Harder She Comes’ I was delighted to help. With that in mind I bring you today’s guest blog! The Harder She Comes blog tour presents: A Guest Post from Valerie Alexander, author of “A Date with Sharon …
It’s interesting for me to think about the different lessons projects unexpectedly teach us about ourselves. I didn’t go into working on Roving Pack thinking that I would walk away with a novel, nor did I certainly think that I would end up learning so much about myself – not only where I come from, …
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