Author Archive
A Hot Mess on NetGalley
My newest book, “A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Our World,” is now available on NetGalley for reviewers. Here’s the description from the publisher: We already know what climate change is and many of us understand the human causes. But what will climate change do to our world? Who will be affected […]
Publishers Weekly releases fall list
The Fall 2021 Publishers Weekly announcement of upcoming children’s books is out now (subscription required). And my new climate-change book “A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Our World” is among the new titles highlighted. Preorders of the hardcover, paperback, and ebook are already available now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, with […]
“The Midnight Tree” in Sandstorm
My short story “The Midnight Tree,” is out today in the 2021 annual issue of Sandstorm. I have a few more coming out soon. An excerpt: I don’t know when people started calling it the midnight tree, but throughout my childhood I never heard it called anything else. It was an oak tree, one thicker […]
Nonfiction resource for teachers, libraries
My publisher, Lerner Books (of which Zest Books is an imprint) put together this useful resource for educators and librarians on Five Kinds of Nonfiction, with examples of Lerner/Zest books for each kind (including my own Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition).
PenDust Radio releases “Found Art, Lost Art”
For the third time, I have a short story included as an episode of the PenDust radio podcast from Rivercliff Books. Originally published as the chapbook “The Art Business” by the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal back in 2014, the story is now released as “Found Art, Lost Art.” You can listen to it at […]
Nice review of Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition
Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition (and the first edition too), was specifically written so that it wasn’t about just one presidential election, but about elections more generally, including state and local ones. So it was nice to see the book featured in the Spring 2021 newsletter of the Rolling Meadows Public Library outside Chicago, as […]
Second PenDust interview
PenDust Radio, the fiction and creative nonfiction podcast from Rivercliff Books, interviewed me a few months ago about both of my stories that it included in the podcast in 2020. The one about “Silver and Gold: A Hollywood Story” ran last month, and now there’s one about “Tell O’Toole O’Flaherty is Dead” out today. That […]
