Janeyolen - janeyolen.com - Jane Yolen -- Author of children’s books, fantasy, and science fiction, including Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
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July 7-30, 2013: 31 Jul 2013 | 03:10 am
The writing theme goes on. In these three weeks, I managed to work with Barbara Diamond Goldin to hand in (at last!) our mss. for Girls’ Bible. Adam and I totally redid the first sections of the saggi...
July 1-6, 2013: 6 Jul 2013 | 01:50 pm
Channeling my inner Jerry Lee Lewis, I have to say: There’s a whole lot of writin’ goin’ on! First, I have been working away on the final stuff for Girls’ Bible which Barbara Diamond Goldin, my co-au...
June 17-June 30, 2013: 2 Jul 2013 | 01:40 pm
Who knew Scotland could be so glorious? Two solid weeks of sunshine. One rainy midnight. Perhaps, I began to muse, I turned right when I should have turned left, and have ended up in Spain. Ah, but th...
Interstitial Moment: Constantly Re-inventing 23 Jun 2013 | 11:30 am
This is an updated repub: People are always surprised at how much I write. They think I am constantly inventing. What they don’t seem to notice, though, is that what I am constantly inventing is myse...
Interstitial Moment: 16 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
Centrum Wisdom Years ago, I was teaching at Centrum Writer’s Conference in Port Townsend, WA. The speakers were amazing, the students ate it all up which was just as well since the food was incredibly...
June 1-June 16, 2013: 16 Jun 2013 | 12:43 am
So after a wonderful graduation party for Maddison–90 people, both inside and outside folk at Heidi’s house, lots of food, friends, Adam and Karl on guitars, no bears (more on bears later) and a socce...
Mini-Essay: 8 Jun 2013 | 04:04 pm
The Anatomy of a Poem I thought I would walk you through my process of writing a poem. Though each poem carves its own way, they all have some similarities in the revision process, and—as I ofte...
May 20-May 31, 2013 3 Jun 2013 | 12:50 am
Busy, busy, Ms. Yolen. Several strands of busy–meetings, writings, eatings, graduations leading to parties. Whew! Meetings: my critique group met once, the illustratorss’ group met once (at my house, ...
May 17-May 19, 2013 20 May 2013 | 06:30 pm
I promised, so here it is. On the 17th, a dozen or more children’s book authors and illustrators donated our time to speak to kids at the Newtown, Ct. schools. I was in a middle school where I present...
March late, 2013-May 18, 2013 18 May 2013 | 02:33 pm
There is no way, of course, to catch up on all that has happened in the past two months. Suffice to say lots of poems were written; a trilogy (graphic novel, noir mystery, Edinburgh 1930′s, gargoyle p...
