Nice and Mean at Carmichael’s Bookstore this Sat!
Posted in Appearances, Nice and Mean, Youth on 09/10/2010 08:02 am by jessWill talk about my reading on Saturday in a moment, but guess who’s coming to town this weekend? The cutest nephew ever!!
In other news (ha, I almost wrote, ‘in other words’), I’m hoping to see some of you Louisville readers at Carmichael’s Bookstore on Frankfort Avenue this Saturday at 4pm! I’ll be reading and doing Q&A, and there will be a special presentation for teachers called, “Ways to Enhance Writing Workshop: Lessons from a Real-Live Writer.” I always thought I was a pretty good writing teacher, but when I started writing full-time, I realized there were several things I could have done more effectively. Here’s a teaser: no more memoirs! Nancy Atwell, writing guru, swears by memoirs. I loved Nancy Atwell, but I never thought the memoir units really worked, and at Carmichael’s, I will reveal the reasons why.
I also have a new approach to my get-the-crowd-talking technique. Questions will fly. Objects will fly. Be there.
Carmichael’s did a great write-up for me, so I’m going to paste it here. Did you know they’re Louisville’s oldest independent bookstore?
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| On Saturday, September 11th at 4 PM we welcome local educator and first-time author Jessica Leader for a reading and discussion of her young adult novel, Nice and Mean.
Come hear Jessica talk about her new book, and if you are a parent, teacher or librarian, you’ll be entered to win a classroom visit from Jessica this fall. Nice and Mean is a well-told, funny, and satisfying story of middle school peer pressure and how two girls, one nice and one mean, learn to broaden their horizons. Jessica Leader knows her subject well – she’s taught at schools in Louisville and New York. |
09/10/2010 at 10:24 am
Oh what an adorable baby. Good luck on your talk! I hope you meet lots of like minded folks. Hmmm, no more memoirs, huh?
09/10/2010 at 2:46 pm
Thanks, Yat-Yee! Nice to see you here. I’m being a bit dramatic about memoirs–I think they’re good for short assignments. But I think the point of a memoir is to draw a larger theme or lesson from a small incident, and adults have a hard enough time with that–I don’t know what’s gained in asking it of kids!