Posted on September 5, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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A late August entry in my journal includes this little ditty dedicated to parents of teenagers in summertime: They were laughing, he and she, in their private cafe, before you stepped out of your room grown tall beyond towers of blocks, beyond models, stories, construction paper,… Continue Reading “Three Cheers for the Big Yellow Bus”
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Posted on September 21, 2012
by Catherine Austen
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Freewriting is a practice I first learned about in Spilling Ink (A Young Writer’s Handbook by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter). It’s simple: Once a day, begin to write and don’t stop – don’t take that pen off the page or those fingers off… Continue Reading “Freewriting”
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Posted on October 21, 2011
by Catherine Austen
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Writers, readers, book-buyers, teens and tweens in Canada’s national capital region on Sunday, October 30th, head over to Aylmer (Gatineau, Quebec) to celebrate the release of my two fall titles: 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6, a middle-grade comedy from Lorimer, and All Good Children,… Continue Reading “Book Launch – the Missing Fable”
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Category: books, Friday Fables, What's New, writingTags: aesop's fables, book launch, book promotion, children's books, middle grade novel, party planning, poetry, YA novel