The Whole Megillah- Author’s Notebook | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty ZeldisZeldis, Kitty. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights. New York: HarperCollins, 2022. 345 pages. Writing the Past (WTP): What motivated you to write Dressmakers of Prospect Heights?Kitty Zeldis (KZ): I had long been interested in New Orleans, a place that figures importantly in … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
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- Mid-Week Field Notes–January 11, 2023Happy 2023! Some very quick things: What 2023 writing goals have you set for yourself?Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | My Name Is Hamburger by Jacqueline JulesJacqueline Jules, My Name Is Hamburger. Kar-Ben, 2022, 240 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What motivated you to write this story? Why verse?Jacqueline Jules (JJ): I love writing in verse. Before I ever wrote anything in prose, I wrote poems. … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–January 4, 2023Happy 2023! Some very quick things: What 2023 writing goals have you set for yourself?Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 52–Your Town’s Famous Residents, Ghosts, and LegendsThe final prompt of this blog series asks us to write about famous residents, ghosts, and/or legends from our hometown or current town. I actually wrote a book about this, Legendary Locals of Kearny, New Jersey (Arcadia, 2015). I wrote … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–December 28, 2022Some very quick things: Happy New Year! Here’s to a great 2023 for writing!Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 51–The Color WheelThe prompt this week asks us to focus on colors: Choose a color, make a list of objects with that color, choose one object to write about. I choose green–and blue–and wrote a poem that involved another person who shares … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty Zeldis
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Mid-Week Notes
Three quick things this week: Two of the five manuscripts I’d sent out into the world were rejected. I had been specifically asked to write them for this one publisher. They were both picture book biographies. I aim to make … Continue reading
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Author’s Notebook | Judah Touro Didn’t Want to Be Famous, Written by Audrey Ades
Ades, Audrey. Judah Touro Didn’t Want to Be Famous. Illus. Vivien Mildenberger. Kar-Ben, 2020, 32 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to write this book? Audrey Ades (AA): I started writing this book in 2016, when I felt … Continue reading
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Mid-Week Notes
Three quick things this week: The Amherst Writers online memoir retreat group has now become a biweekly, self-led group. I’m looking forward to plowing memories and genealogical research. We start in September. Sadly, AWA’s beloved founder and author of Writing … Continue reading
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Author’s Notebook | Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life, Written by Laurie Wallmark
Wallmark, Laurie. Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life. Illus. by Katy Wu. Sterling, 2019. 48 pp., $16.95 The Whole Megillah (TWM): You’ve now published four picture book biographies. What has driven your interest in writing about female scientists? Laurie Wallmark (LW): There … Continue reading
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