Nov 10 2026
Boys aren’t reading. As a writer and boy mom, the markedly steep decline in male readership over the past two decades didn’t shock me. The response, though? Totally different story. Wow. Just…wow. Sometime over the weekend, The Atlantic dropped this gem: An Underrated Reason Boys Are Reading Less: A lack of male protagonists is making …
Sep 22 2016
I’m going to say something possibly unpopular and perhaps a bit strange. I hate the children’s book The Giving Tree, even though oddly, it was my favorite book. I remember being five and reading the story and just weeping for the tree, feeling devastated. Understanding what she was feeling. I recall hating the boy and the self-centered …
What is a brand? A platform? Why do we need one? How do we get one? Better still how can we create a brand with the power of driving book sales and still have time left to do THE most important part of our job? Writing more books.
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