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Posted in A Writer's Life, Children's Theater, Self-publishing, Uncategorized, Writing for children, Writing for the Web on Jul 24th, 2008
One of the things I’ve noticed at writer’s conference is the tendency for successful writers to talk about how many rejections they got before finally having something accepted. Sort of like old soldiers comparing war wounds. The message is that you have to be tough and able to handle rejection if you’re going [...]
Posted in Writing for children on Jun 19th, 2008
Tasha Tudor died yesterday at the age of 92. I never met her, but feel as though I knew her, nonetheless.
All my life, I’ve read and loved Tasha’s books, from Pumpkin Moonshine, her first book, published in 1938, to Corgyville Christmas, her last book, published in 2002. In all, she wrote and [...]
Posted in Children's Theater, Writing for children on May 28th, 2008
Last summer, I made costumes for the Rocky Mountain Theater for Kids. After pulling together approximately 110 costumes in 8 weeks, I realized that it’s REALLY not what I want to do any more. Though it was fun to find out how well I’d retained the skills I learned in undergraduate school and honed in [...]
Posted in Self-publishing, Writing for children on May 24th, 2008
I’m finally ready to blog again after a couple of frantic weeks of packing and moving. It seems appropriate that I’m getting back into gear on World Turtle Day. Not only does this nicely tie into my publishing company, Green Turtle Press, and my middle-grade fantasy novel, Turtle Island, (the title of which I took from one of [...]
P.S. McFadden (Miss Pat) writes
award winning
fiction and non-fiction for and about children, as well as teaching materials
for various educational publishers.
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