by Pam | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
[An interview excerpted from my book, Jump-Starting Boys] I read some as a boy, mostly the Hardy Boys novels.But as I got a wee bit older, I wasn’t interested in readinganymore. I was more into running outside and playing. Mysister embraced reading, but I was...
by Pam | Mar 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
How ironic that only days after I write a blog about having written only one girl book (Breathless) out of my 17 books, I find a message on Facebook from a guy who says Breathless was his favorite book in high school. So much for trying to label books “boy-friendly”...
by Pam | Mar 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The fear of getting caught was part of the excitement.Kip’s only friends are the members of the Daredevil Club, whose mission is to complete seven dangerous dares before their rivals, the Wildmen, complete their list of dares. Kip had been the leader of the Daredevil...
by Pam | Mar 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Pam Withers, www.pamwithers.comFew people have put as much time and effort into figuring outwhat makes a book club successful as Christianne Hayward, whohas been running them for sixteen years. As a single mother of two boys (one a keener reader than the other),...
by Pam | Mar 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
From the School Library Journal, my first official review on Andreo’s Race, which is out April 14, 2015 (but can be pre-ordered now; see link at bottom of this blog)http://bookverdict.com/details.xqy?uri=Product2015-03-01-1088854.xml This action-packed book...
by Pam | Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Underwater, a girl’s view of how to catch a guy can get distorted.And the thing about panicking when you’re forty feet under the ocean’s surface is that you can drown, and you know you can drown. In fact, you can’t breathe without your regulator even if you’re not...