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THANK YOU, RICHARD PECK (April 5, 1934 – May 23, 2018)

We met in Miami when Destiny dropped me in the seat next to you at a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators pre-conference dinner for volunteers and faculty. Our paths had crossed once before, at my first SCBWI conference … Continue reading

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AUF WIEDERSEHEN – Until We Meet Again

RUTHLESS. What a curious word. And how did it ever come to mean ‘cruel, heartless, pitiless.’ Could it have been coined in a gal leaves guy country-western ballad—Cold and callous, she ground his heart like the butt of her Camel … Continue reading

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