Vijaya Bodach

My daughter brought home a pretty red envelope from school. Imagine my surprise and delight at seeing a stack of thank you notes from sch...

Fall is such a beautiful time of the year. We went camping at Hunting Island this past weekend and it was wonderful to take a break from...

Kelly Starling Lyons gave a retrospective of multicultural fiction. I wasn’t even aware of some of the dreadful books featuring black child...

Okay, if you are expecting conference tidbits, you'll just have to wait ... because Faith tagged me and I can't pass up a chance to...

Below are some pictures from the Carolinas conference. I had such a good time meeting some old friends, Blueboard friends, and making some ...

I love letters in the mail and boxes of books ... but nothing beats getting complimentary copies ... My rebus: Where is Kali? beautifull...

Sometimes novel revisions look like this, especially when you're doing in-depth revisions. Sometimes I shave off too much. There are ...

It’s strange to think how a tragedy of immense proportions, like that of 9/11 can have anything good come out of it, but my husband confesse...

ICL is sponsoring a YA short-story contest (any sub-genre: adventure, historical, Sci/Fi). Read the specifications. In brief, it's for ...

A little girl inspired me to post this picture. I came across this alligator-turtle on my morning walk. He obviously had to get to the ot...