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Where do ideas come from?
People often ask writers where they get their ideas from. I never really know what to say to this. It’s not as if there’s a shop where you can go to buy them. They don’t tumble out of vending machines along with your can of soda or turn up like lost socks from behind the […]
Meeting of the Secret Society
Last year my older sister and I got matching tattoos at Fat Ram’s Pumpkin Tattoo here in Jamaica Plain. Then my younger sister came to visit and she got one too. I wish I could say that I endured the experience with complete stoicism. I certainly meant to. But instead I screwed up my face, […]
UK Publication Day!
Today my book, The One Safe Place (Orion Children’s Books) is out in the UK! Last night, a small, dimwitted part of me was secretly hoping that when I woke up this morning, the sun would be out, a brass band would be playing outside and Amazon would be snarled up with millions of people […]
Eye in the sky
Last week, in a fit of pre-holiday overexcitement, my ten year old threw this squishy eyeball thing into the air. It hit the ceiling and stayed there. Whenever I go into the sitting room, I feel its gaze upon me. It has a sad, vaguely reproachful look as if to say: Why do you let […]