Since 2013 Tweetspeak Poetry has hosted a delightful celebration of poets and poetry called Take Your Poet to Work Day, held each year on the third Wednesday of July. That means this week—July 17! You can head to their website for forty popsicle-stick-ready printable puppets, whom you can color and …
Thank you, Charlie, for this kind review. The Stonemason’s House releases on October 15. To encounter a living writer who wipes away a century of sophisticated cynicism and dark wit (even in fairy tales) is like the first breath taken by a man just freed from a dungeon prison. The Stonemason’s …
The Stonemason’s House had been percolating in the back of my mind for at least a year before it was time to pitch a new project, and before i’d even gotten the title green-lit by the author, i’d found my illustrator. Stephen Crotts showed up at Hutchmoot (the Rabbit Room‘s …
Time has a way of leading a person along a crooked path. Sometimes the path is hard to hold to and people fall off along the way. They curse the road for its steep grades and muddy ruts and settle themselves in hinterlands of thorn and sorrow, never knowing or …
Coming this fall, The Stonemason’s House is Weem Adrift’s third title and second by author A.S. Peterson. From the publisher: i first encountered this story in an earlier revision and was captivated by its refreshing simplicity—a simplicity which develops into a beautiful complexity on each rereading. That complexity has only become …
Tomorrow morning i go back to classes after a much-needed (and still too full) spring break. That means i am halfway through the semester. i am also perhaps halfway through a typesetting project which i hoped would be finished by now (every solution brings with it a new challenge; the …
Things i have not been doing: Running this blog. Keeping track of what day it is. Things i have been doing: Running Story Camp, a film series, a book sale, and a network book tour at the church library. Planning an eighth grade language arts course for my best girl. …
Since announcing the upcoming release of In the Year of Jubilation i’ve been caught up in a flurry of learning, coordinating, stitching, binding. Now the first orders have been shipped and i can gratefully say that Jubilations is officially back in print. 🙂 Thanks to a thrilling number of preorders …