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Why I Write For Children: Authors Explain at the Children’s Authors Breakfast...

I had a great time at the Children’s Authors Breakfast at the BEA. I can only wish that I was as funny as Eoin Colfer and Sherman Alexie, and I can also only wish that someday I’ll be as big as Judy...

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The Quest for Healing #1

Recently, I was talking with a good friend of mine who has just become a doctor and started his residency. Because he’s Catholic and a doctor, I asked him whether he thinks people are ever healed...

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Sound Track

When I’m working on a novel, I usually listen to one or two c.d.’s obsessively. For example, I wrote The Confessional while listening to Sparta and The Mars Volta, both classic El Paso bands. I wrote...

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The Gatekeepers

My previous post about The Cool Kids reminded me of the panel I organized for REFORMA’s National Conference in September. The panel consisted of the only 3 y.a. writers that I am aware of who have ever...

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The Emotion that Defines You

I’ve mentioned before how I’ll listen to the same song or band, over and over, while I’m writing a particular novel. It helps me tap into the defining emotion of that particular character. I’ve always...

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Femi Kuti Live at the Fillmore

We saw Femi Kuti live at the Fillmore last night. It was a lively show and you couldn’t help but dance! African jazz beats, three sexy women backup singers (I wish young women obsessed with being thin...

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Birthdays and Me

 You never really know what a jealous, icky person you are until someone you don’t like (or maybe you even like them, there’s just a teensy-weeny tiny part of you that obviously wants to rub it in...

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Womanhood, Fertility, & Identity

In college, my best friend once described her hips as “child-bearing hips.” She knew back then that she wanted children and, indeed, now has six beautiful and healthy daughters. Me? I didn’t even know...

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The Value of Art

I’ve always been attracted to books that explore the darkness of humanity rather than books that explore sweetness and light. When I’m compelled by a romance within a book or a movie, it’s because the...

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Breasts, Sexual Objects, Flash Fiction, and Teen Pregnancy: an interview with...

Candice Baxter’s piece of flash fiction, “In Public,” has just been published on The Fertile Source. Here, I talk with her about that piece, writing, and her own personal journey. In “In Public,” your...

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