Excited to be both the interviewer and interviewee with the hero of NANOWRIMO (National November Writing Month), Grant Faulkner, at the Mill Valley Library in San Rafael on Tuesday, November 12th, from 6:30 to 7:30. I wrote STOLEN SECRETS during NANOWRIMO, and I’m not sure I would’ve finished it without that daily word-count nipping at my heels. I was afraid to write it, if you want to know the truth. Being able to push through kept me too busy to consider such questions as: How can I pull off a book with a Holocaust mystery in it? Who am I to write something like this? Who I am to write at all?
to visit my youngest daughter before she returns from her high school year abroad. My oldest daughter and I took the train everywhere, ending our trip with a fabulous visit with my host exchange son, Luca, and his warm and welcoming parents. Now that we are all back, safe and sound, I am once again tackling my picture book idea. It’s a gold mine subject, and one that I want to have ready in September for a contest, but I have little experience writing for this age group so there is much to learn. Then it’s back to my next YA project. They key for me is reintroduce the consistent schedule. I have spent a lot of time convincing myself that I am too busy to write. It’s not true! I should be busier writing.
She died weeks before Bergen Belsen concentration camp was liberated, a few days after her sister, Margot. Thanks to all the artists that kept her memory alive through literature, art works, operas, ballets, films, plays…..keep history alive.