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Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: The Cannibalization of All Right Now
After All Together Now, I wrote a popular post about the cannibalization of that story and I thought it might make for a fun post to actually “live revise” the first chapter of All Right Now. If that sounds boring to you, Esteemed Reader, the good news is this is the internet and there are […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: It’s Not an S: Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the Nature of God, and the Persistence of Hope
Esteemed Audience, I haven’t reviewed books here for a long time now and I only ever “reviewed” one movie, which was the prequel to this film, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice (I loved it). And a second film review will not be necessary after I tell you Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the greatest movie […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Story Compromise
I’ve had a good weekend, Esteemed Reader, and I hope you have to. As I write this it’s Writing Day at my place. I’m on my back porch overlooking a river and the woods with sweet, sweet Yanni playing in my ears (screw you for judging me!). The YA Cannibals are inside writing away. Mike […]
Middle Grade Ninja: Reviews, Interviews, and Guest Posts for THE BOOK OF DAVID
If you have a blog or a site and you’d like to interview me or have me over for a guest post, I’d be thrilled. Just email me and ask. If you’ve written a review of the book, let me know and I’ll link to it here. Reviews “The horror and creep factor feels like […]
Middle Grade Ninja: Where the Heck is the Ninja?
I am here, Esteemed Reader. I know it may not seem like it as we had no posts last week and aside from this note, there will be no posts this week… or next week. So here’s the deal: I don’t talk about my day job on this blog because I doubt you’d find it […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Charles Gilman
Charles Gilman is an alias of Jason Rekulak, an editor who lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children. When he’s not dreaming up new tales of Lovecraft Middle School, he’s biking along the fetid banks of Schuylkill river, in search of two-headed rats and other horrific beasts. His novels in the Tales from Lovecraft […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Jeanne DuPrau
Jeanne DuPrau is the author of The New York Times bestseller The City of Ember and its companion novels The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, and The Diamond of Darkhold. She lives in Menlo Park. She spends several hours of every day at her computer, thinking up sentences. She has this quote taped to her […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Rob(ert) Kent
Robert Kent is the author of the horror novels The Book of David and All Together Now: A Zombie Story, and the novellas Pizza Delivery and All Right Now: A Short Zombie Story. Under the name Rob Kent, he writes middle grade novels such as Banneker Bones and the Giant Robot Bees and the upcoming Banneker Bones and the Alligator People. Rob(ert) Kent holds […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Bonnie Doerr
Bonnie J. Doerr is the author of Island Sting. She has taught students from kindergarten to college in eight states. Degrees in reading education, combined with a brief post as a science teacher, led her to write ecological mysteries. Her novels celebrate caring, involved, “green” teens who take action with attitude and a touch of romance. […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Editor Peggy Tierney
Peggy Tierney founded Tanglewood Publishing in 2003, just after her move to the Midwest. Peggy has been a children’s book editor and publisher in the UK and in the US since 1995. She has a degree in comparative literature from the American University of Paris, has lived to read since she first learned her alphabet, […]