Kristin Wolden Nitz

Author: Kristin Wolden Nitz

  • Planning to Escape from Chapter 9

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    I probably spent a half an hour today trying to figure out when Calyn would hang up a lantern.  Sure, this was coming at a rather tense moment for her, but I’d like to power forward and build a little bit of  momentum.  So I’m going to try a blog pledge and see how that…

  • A New Address for Fuse #8

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    I always like checking the new book reviews from Betsy Bird’s blog at Fuse #8.  It took a bit of scouting around today to find the updated site.  If anyone else is looking for her, you can click on   http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production

  • Best of the Best

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    Every year the Bank Street College of Education Book Committee reviews over 6000 titles.  They put 600 of those books into their Best Children’s Books of the Year publication.    The Bank Street College of Education recently put out a list of their  Outstanding Books for the years 1997 to 2008 on their website.  Each  of the books on…

  • Escape From Chapter 8!

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    I did it.  I found a way out of Chapter 8 when the right combination of words finally clicked into place.  The lock opened.  Escape.

  • Still Stuck on Chapter 8

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    Just over two weeks ago, I was pretty optimistic about wrapping up Chapter 8 and moving onto the introduction of two new characters in Chapter 9.  Well, I did manage to pull together a scene to open Chapter 9.  But then I went back to Chapter 8 in order to bring it up to the…

  • Off to the Printer

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    Well, that’s it.  Earlier this afternoon, I had to approve two final sections of prose.  Once I did, my editor told me, we could Push. That. Button.   I checked them.  I even read them out loud again even though I was sure my editor and the copy editor had been extremely careful to make sure…

  • World Cup Fever!

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    ILBNH, otherwise known as InsertLiteraryBlogNameHere, included DEFENDING IRENE in their list of soccer books to read in preparation for the World Cup.   My book certainly shows why Italians are so passionate for the Azurri.  Soccer isn’t just the national game of Italy; it’s the national passion.  But the bias against girls playing the game runs…

  • Done? Really done?

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    A week ago I got the “final interior” of SUSPECT.  My editor let me know that this would be my last chance to make any comments.  Another attachment held the last few comments from the copy editor along with some impressions from  a proofreader who had never seen any of it before.  This was helpful.  I…

  • Mowing the Lawn

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    About three weeks ago, my editor called me.  We were in the middle of copy edits for SUSPECT.  Usually, this is a matter of tweaking sentences and fixing mistakes.  A few continuity issues will pop up here and there.  But this was something much bigger.  The copy editor couldn’t buy into what was going on…

  • Self-censorship?

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    Sometimes books are challenged in libraries.  There might be a word, phrase, character or situation that people object to. But one parent really took objections to the next level when he paged through a book by Dan Gutman.  Mr. Gutman wrote about this surprising correspondence in an article for School Library Journal. (Note: Link updated.)  His experience…