Who's got talent? YOU'VE GOT TALENT!

Kids

Are

Amazing!

Can we introduce you to Chad's young cousin, Anna. She has a passion for music and made this Youtube video below. It would make great background music to the rest of your blog reading experience, so CLICK IT! :)

Also Chad is going to be a presenter this spring at the Teen Author Boot Camp. It's a fun conference for writers age 13-19 and this year's Keynote speaker is Shannon Hale. (Have you seen my post about Shannon Hale? It's a little obsessive.) 

Here's the deets:

Fun, right? And I've heard great stuff about it (but alas I am much too old to attend.) So if you know kids who write consider this great conference. 

And encourage the kids around you

to become something fabulous

BECAUSE THEY WILL

and you want them to mention you at award ceremonies.http://teenauthorbootcamp.com/

Who's a chicken?

A conversation with my three year old in the car.

"I not chicken," he said

"Me neither." I search my brain for where this topic came from. He was watching Underdog that morning. Calling someone chicken kind of sounds like something from a cheesy 60's cartoon.

"Underdog isn't chicken either, huh?" I add testing to see if this is the source.

"No."

"Underdog is brave!" I think I figured it out.

"No, Underdog is a dog."

Huh? Oh, that kind of chicken.

Genres

There is a lot of talk about genres in the publishing industry and I have been getting closer to understanding the subtle nuances
BUT this clarified everything



This was a video that Sarah Eden made for the LDStorymakers Writers Conference this May. If you don't know Sarah, you should! She writes the cutest romance novels. What? You don't read cute romance novels? Then what about some kissing, bad mouthed, vampire novels? I think they call that YA?
(I kinda threw up in my mouth looking at those vampire books)