by Pam | Aug 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
As someone who is passionate about getting kids to read, I’m always pleased when I stumble across a great resource. Maybe many of you know about this website already, but I’d like to do a shout-out about it. It includes articles like “7 ways to get...
by Pam | Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Who out there has read one of my books and can submit a quick review on Amazon, Indigo, or direct to me (info@box5457.temp.domains)? Yes?! Super! You’re all the greatest!! Because Alex is making me do this. Alex is my new social media adviser, and she says (can...
by Pam | Aug 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
There’s a reason that 12-year-old Tony, a character in my just-off-the-press novel Paintball Island, happens to be deaf. A few years ago just after I spoke at a literacy conference, a deaf-interpreter studying to be a teacher approached me to say, “Did you...
by Pam | Jul 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve been doing everything but blogging the past ten months, mostly traveling but of course, also writing. I have a new middle-grade adventure book off the press (Paintball Island), a young-adult one coming in March (Andreo’s Race, Tundra Books), and...
by Pam | Sep 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m San Francisco-bound next week, promoting Jump-Starting Boys! My schedule includes: Monday, Sept. 16 interview with KPFA host Denny Smithson Monday, Sept. 16 6-7 pm presentation at Kumon Campbell, 1784 Winchester Blvd., Campbell Tuesday Sept. 17 taping at...
by Pam | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Wow, what response my co-author (and older sister) Cynthia Gill (see photos of us, young and old; me on the left in the top photo, me on the right in the bottom photo) and I are getting from our just-off-the-press book for parents and educators: Jump-Starting Boys....
