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This month’s issue of Writing Life is on its way to inboxes. Included are updates on the projects that have been keeping me busy over the past month as well as an article on avoiding infodumps and practicing the fine art of showing instead of telling. Not a subscriber? Click here to read the newsletter online.

Saturday was the big YA-Palooza event at the Clinton Book Shop here in Clinton, NJ. It was a blast. There was fun, food and plenty of picture taking. Here’s author Amy Holder taking a picture of me while I take a picture of her: I got to catch up with some author friends of mine, and we all learned a lot about each other thanks to the author trivia game we played. I think the audience had a fun time guessing as well. I managed to stump them with a few of my author facts. Though sadly, they knew right away that I was the author who got a hideous perm in the sixth grade and nearly drove into a tree when learning to drive. In my defense, it was a small tree and learning to drive on an old stick shift BMW is less than ideal. All our guessers got to win some...

I was going to start off this post by saying that this time of year is perfect for sitting in (or near, if you aren’t quite as tiny as Amber here) a sunny window, but as I look at my window today there is no sun in sight, just gray clouds and rain. As every school kid knows April showers bring May flowers, and May flowers bring pilgrims. So, what do March showers bring? Well, ear infections and floods, but I see a bit more green out there and hear a lot more birds so there are some positive effects as well. I’m hoping that today you are able to find a sunny window of your own, and if not a literal sunny window at least a metaphorical one. Today I’m over at Adventures in Children’s Publishing for their WOW Wednesday feature writing about...

I’ve just sent out the January issue of my newsletter, on time I would like to proudly point out. For those of you who subscribe you should be receiving it in your inbox shortly, for those of you who don’t subscribe you can still read it on the web here. Of course, subscribing means you have a chance of winning a prize each month. Speaking of prizes, each month’s giveaway will now be a fun prize pack of goodies with fun stuff for writers and book lovers and the other generally cool sort of people that read my newsletter. Another change for 2011, is a special section I’m adding called Subscriber Spotlight, and I want your help. Have a writing or book related tip to share? Have a burning writing question to ask? Just want to do some shameless...

It’s the fifteenth of the month? Do you know what that means? Well, it means that it’s my grandmother’s birthday. Happy birthday, Grandma, but it also means that for two consecutive months I have managed to get my newsletter out by my self-imposed deadline. You can read the September Newsletter here. You can also subscribe to the newsletter and be entered to win a great prize every month.