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The Second Best Kind of Revision Letter

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I posted a bit ago about the photopoetry book I’m working on for an educational publisher. I got it turned in early last week, and yesterday I got the revision notes. Now, there are several kinds of revision notes I get from educational publishers. The first kind is the best kind. It’s where the editor […]

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Poetry on Demand: My Latest Assignment

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I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’d love to sell more trade books (the kind like Stampede, where I write a book I love and find a publisher who wants to publish it). And I do have two more in the works for 2011 and 2012–yay! But right now, at least, my bread […]

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The Beehive Is Back in Style

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I found out yesterday through Google Alerts that my poetry book A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets has been shortlisted for the 2011 Beehive Award (Utah’s Children’s Book Award).  Woohoo! Libraries will acquire as many books as they can (it’s a pretty dang long shortlist, with 10 poetry books alone!) and share them with kids, […]

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Poetry Friday: Slobbery (by me)

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  I did a fun Family Reading Night at a local school last night, and for the first time used my poetry treasure chest (more about that soon). The event was great, the kids were terrific, and if I had taken a pic of it, I’d share the fantastic group poem we wrote (shoot!) But […]

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Shrinking Days on Tour

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OK, nothing’s really on tour. But the leaves are golden or on the ground (or both), it’s almost Halloween, and my book Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights: Poems About Fall, the first book I wrote in the Capstone series I did, had two nice mentions recently. First up, it’s on the Wild About Nature blog today. Check it […]

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A Couple More School-Themed Poetry Books…By Me

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I’ve been posting this week about school-themed poetry books I love, and I guess I would not be living up to my promotion commitment if I didn’t sneak in a mention of my own two books. I’ve shared poems from both before, so I’ll just link you to the places where you can find excerpts from the […]

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Always Got My Feet: Poems About Transportation

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Here’s book 10 of the 10 Capstone poetry books I wrote in 2007. If you haven’t already heard about the overall process, and if you’re interested, you can read about it here. After having written 9 poetry collections in one year, I was ready for the final book–to be over. It wasn’t that I didn’t […]

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Lettuce Introduce You: Poems About Food

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Here’s book 9 of the 10 Capstone poetry books I wrote in 2007. If you haven’t already heard about the overall process, and if you’re interested, you can read about it here.   After I finished Chatter, Sing, Roar, Buzz: Poems About the Rain Forest, I moved on to the food poetry collection. I wasn’t […]

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Chattering About Rain Forest Poems

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Here’s book 8 of the 10 Capstone poetry books I wrote in 2007. If you haven’t already heard about the overall process, and if you’re interested, you can read about it here.   After I finished A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets, I moved on to the rain forest collection. This was another one I […]

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Poetry Friday: Cinquains Everywhere!

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  Cinquains are everywhere lately! They’re a fun, simple form that can pack a big punch. Check out Kelly Fineman’s Kid Magazine Writers – Meter Readers column on cinquains! I learned some new things reading her column. Here’s a cinquain from my book, Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets (Capstone 2008), which I blogged about here. Perfect […]

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