TweetOkay, so with just a half an hour left in the day that was May 1, 2012, I’m finally posting. Yes, I’m adding to my already crazy summer schedule. But this blog has long been neglected in favor of work and the TeenWritersBloc.com site, so I’ve decided this month I’ll get back into the swing of things. I’m taking part in Michelle Rafter’s annual blogathon, which I’ve done once before. Last year, more than 200 bloggers participated!
This blog has long been a mishmash of random thoughts and musings, so I’ve …

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax takes a place of pride alongside other censored titles — including the Hunger Games, Harry Potter and the Perks of Being A Wallflower — at the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week Read-Out tent at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Which just moved it to the top of our reading list for little Kavya.

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2008 was definitely the year of Rob Pattinson and Tina Fey. Who will break out big in 2009?
Check out my ABCNews.com Story on the brightest new stars of the new year — and a few comeback kids!

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TweetHaving seen my fair share of teen tomes turned into tragically bad movies – anyone recall the insipid, inane Blood & Chocolate? – I wasn’t expecting all that much from Catherine Hardwicke’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling vampire tale, Twilight. Sure, Hardwicke was a charmer, with her California breeziness, and had a solid pedigree with smarter teen fare like Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. And yeah, I could see why the film’s star, Rob Pattinson (check out my NYTimes piece on him here) had Twilighters across the country asking him …