What was it that got me so interested in archaeology as a kid?  It wasn’t just the treasure-hunting aspect (which, I quickly realized, was definitively NOT what archaeology was about).  It wasn’t about the digging in the dirt thing either, though I certainly spent a lot of my free time doing that.   No, my […]

No books at dinner.  That was the rule.   It was a necessary intervention for my entire book-loving family…but especially for me.  If I wasn’t at school, or at Little League, tennis or soccer practice, I was reading.   Now that I write for kids, I’ve thought a lot about the books that distracted me […]

I’m more than a month into published authordom, and I’m still reeling.   It’s just crazy!  All of it!   The story I hammered out–in my tiny, Upper West Side apartment, in my tiny Parisian flat,  in notebooks and napkins, on weekends and lunch breaks and late summer nights–is now being read in Cleveland, Cairo, and […]