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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: February 2015
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Friday, February 27, 2015. Writer Recharge : Extended! Originally, we'd said to post your final Writer Recharge updates today. But you know what? You deserve the weekend to tie up loose ends and work just a little bit more toward your goals. Check back here on Monday for the link for your final update. Have a wonderful, productive weekend! Monday, February 23, 2015. Writer Recharge : Blue Rapture Edition (Update 3). And thanks to my co-hosts - Katy Upperman. OMG, The Duff.
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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: January 2015
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. What's Up Wednesday : Arctic Blast Edition. What's Up Wednesday hails from the blogs of Jaime Morrow. Join the fun on your own blog and then go to Jaime's to add your link - it's a great way to share what's going on in your life and get to know other bloggers! My reading streak continues. I ended the year strong, reading 21 books in the month of December. That's gotta be a record for me. I've read five so far this month. WHAT ELSE IS NEW.
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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: March 2015
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. This Months Reads : Mountains, Mexico, and Skid Row. It's been a while since I've done a monthly reading wrap-up, so I thought I'd start one again. This month, I read ten books, a respectable number. Here's the rundown:. I WAS HERE by Gayle Forman. RED QUEEN by Victoria Aveyard (see my "review" here. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN LOST AND FOUND by fellow YA Buccaneer Kathryn Holmes. LOVE AND OTHER THEORIES by Alexis Bass. FROM WHAT I REMEMBER: My friend M...
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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: RSW 2015 :: Back to (TMFKA) KEYS
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Monday, June 29, 2015. RSW 2015 : Back to (TMFKA) KEYS. Ready Set. WRITE! Is hosted by Alison Miller. More details can be found on their web sites.). Participating in RSW is a great way to set and work toward. Goals, get to know other writers, and help hold one another accountable. Re-start revisions on (TMFKA) KEYS - so excited to dive back in. Barely, but yes! Read one book for the YAB Summer Reading Challenge. A "Road Trip" Book - KISSING IN AMERICA by Margo Rabb.
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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: May 2015
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Sunday, May 31, 2015. May Reads : Thank You, Jessi Kirby. I cannot believe May is over and tomorrow it will be June and in three days school will be over for the year. Where has the time gone? May was another tough month for reading, even worse than April, if you can believe it. I read two books in May and part of a third. But the two books I did read - and the one I'm still reading - were fantastic, and for that, I am extremely happy. The first, BONE GAP. THINGS WE KNOW...
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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: Would You Dance?
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Tuesday, June 9, 2015. My Best Buy family lost one of our kindest, most generous, most caring members over the weekend. Richard and I worked together a million years ago at Best Buy 281 in Richfield, Minnesota, usually that beautiful early morning shift of 5:45 am to 2:15 pm. Those hours before the store opened were my favorite time of day, when we could get a lot of work done, we could crank the music of our choice, and we had a lot of laughs. And I had employees. Aweso...
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Sara Biren :: Young Adult Author: April 2015
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SP Critique and Editing Services. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Winds of Hope and Memory. For days, I have tried to write this post. For days, I have tried to process my feelings about the death of Jonathan Crombie, the actor who played Gilbert Blythe in the mid-80s production of Anne of Green Gables. On Sunday, April 12, three days before he died, I saw a local production of Anne of Green Gables. With my mom and two of my sisters. Here's a Facebook conversation that happened after:. The world learned of Jona...
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KidLit Groups | Anna Marras
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Writing For Kids, One Word At a Time. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. 2014 MN SCBWI Conference. 2014 May Meet-up/Parsley Farewell. 2013 IA SCBWI Conference. 2012 & 2013 MN SCBWI Conferences. 2012 IA SCBWI Conference. My Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. SCBWI) and LOFT Literary Center. Memoir group give me permission to play all day at my notebook or computer and they don’t think I’m nuts. At least, they are polite enough not to say so out loud. Trisha Shaskan and me.