Blog Roundup, featuring Bertie twice

Here’s an actual blog round up, which I haven’t done in a while, but there was a minor flurry of activity last week. I visited the St. Michael, Minnesota middle school last week and met a bunch of cool kids and a very cool teacher, Jill Foltz, who blogged about it better than I could. [...]

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Bonus Up Your Holiday Gift

If you plan on giving a friend or loved one Mudville for Christmas or Hanukkah, a December birthday, New Years Day, Festivus, or anything else…. Just let me know. While supplies last, and within the U.S. only, I will send you a personalized bookplate so you can fancy up the book. Just use the contact [...]

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CLN Trivia Answer from Last Time

A Billion for Boris and Summer Switch are sequels to… the classic novel Freaky Friday, which has been made into movies on three different occasions (all three by Disney). Summer Switch is basically the same book, with the brother and Dad switching headspace instead of the girl and her mom. I don’t know if Rodgers [...]

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CLN Trivia for November 27

What popular series features Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania? Answer by December 11 to win! (Enter Here)

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Do the Gute: A Tale of Two Cities

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. One hundred and fifty years ago today, readers in London flocked around newsstands to get the last installment (and read the famous last sentence [...]

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A Birthday Cake for a Fun Guy

As author/editor/dancer/lay-zoologist Michael Northrop remembered in comments to a different post, another year came and went for the author of Mudville, Mamba Point, and (now) Wake, ME. Since there was no round number, I decided not to make as big a deal out of this one as I did the last one. But I did [...]

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Deep Purple Scaletta Tour 2009

For the person who found my blog by searching for “deep purple scaletta tour 2009,” I’m sorry to report that was no such thing in 2009, nor is there one planned. However, now that you mention it, that would be AWESOME. I’d love to jam with Ian and Ritchie. So if you happen to know, [...]

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Thanks!

It’s Thanksgiving week, so here is my own “Thanks!” to everyone who read Mudville, bought it for a friend or loved one, plans to read it, or at least stopped in the bookstore and admired the cover. Thanks to my wonderful agent and first-class publisher, thoughtful editor, smart designer, attentive publicist, and everyone else over [...]

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Writing in the 21st Century

I wonder from time to time if I could have finished a novel in any other century. I am just old enough to have written stories on a manual typewriter, slamming the carriage return at the end of each line. My mom had an electric typewriter, but I wasn’t allowed to use it. My brother [...]

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CLN Trivia for November 13

What book had less-famous sequels entitled A Billion for Boris and Summer Switch? Answer by November 20 to win a prize. (Enter Here)

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