Today’s author crush is special partly because she is someone I have already stalked met. Last spring Karen Cushman spoke at the Tucson Festival of Books and I was thrilled to get my picture taken with her. If you haven’t read her Newbery Award winning historical books, you need to try them out. These are [...]

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The first author I ever saw was Carol Shields. I had never read one of her books, in fact, I had never heard of her until I learned that she was coming to a local library to read her book, The Stone Diaries. I went just to find out what a real author looked and [...]

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