http://blog.griffieworld.com For thoughts and musings by author LK Gardner-Griffie Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.griffieworld.com/2010/05/nowhere-feels-like-home-nabs-2010-pearson-prize-teen-choice-award/ LA Times Festival of Books, April 24th and 25th at UCLA.]]> http://blog.griffieworld.com/2010/03/help-me-pick-my-poster/ Misfit McCabe review was posted by Denise Swank, an author who I've come to know through Twitter and highly recommend if you tweet to get to know.]]> http://blog.griffieworld.com/2010/01/review-and-comments-to-warm-the-heart-misfit-mccabe/ http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/11/thoughts-from-the-morning-commute-levis-v-wranglers/ guest post on another blog in the guise of an inteview with one of my characters.]]> http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/11/interview-with-katie-mccabe/ http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/06/press-release-misfit-mccabe-wins-runner-up-honors-in-pearson-prize-teen-choice-award-contest/ Learning For a Cause Organization. I'll admit, I was a little puzzled at first because I had not heard of this organization prior to receiving the email, and didn't know how they would have heard of me. ]]> http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/05/pearson-prize-teen-choice-award/ http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/05/thoughts-from-the-morning-commute-controlling-characters/ Jackson Pearce which was a video response to some ridiculous remarks by the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and The Atlantic about the young adult genre. I have embedded the video in this post so you can enjoy it as well. Jackson Pearce is an up and coming writer, who has her debut novel, As You Wish coming out in August 2009 (and is currently available for pre-order.) I really enjoy Jackson's sense of humor and quirkiness, and have browsed a few of her other videos as well. Maybe I'll have to turn Denny into my camera man and start V-logging too. I'll get Phoenix to play me because she likes to pose for the camera. (All right, already. . . I digressed.)]]> http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/04/thoughts-from-the-morning-commute-the-young-adult-genre/ http://blog.griffieworld.com/2009/04/la-times-book-festival-day-1/