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Welcome to Solomonville
I’ve said it so many times now, it longer embarrasses me: I discovered the subject of my first novel while Googling myself. Most of the other Anna Solomons didn’t interest me: a real-estate broker in...
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DISCOVERY: Aldous Huxley’s children’s book
One of the pleasures of having a young kid is rediscovering many of the books I’ve loved but forgotten. Harold and the Purple Crayon comes to mind, as do A House is a House for Me, Sylvester and the...
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Book tour 101
Now that my first book tour is over, I have some wisdom to impart. I also have new packing skills, stiff limbs, and intimate knowledge of red-eye flights. (Hint: Don’t do it.) I tell the whole story –...
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My favorite picture books of 2011
I often make fun of end-of-year lists. So I thought I’d try one of my own. And here you have it: In no particular order, the children’s books I fell in love with (for the first time or the 100th) in...
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Oh, Hannukah books.
I waited until 2011 to start a blog – so I thought I’d wait until Hannukah was officially over to share a couple new discoveries: two children’s books that illuminate this already-bright holiday...
View ArticleA little rant on princesses and happy endings
Over at Beyond the Margins today, I have a new post up about why princesses really drive me crazy. Hint: it’s not just their little waists or passive dispositions. It has something to do with: story....
View ArticleI call them the “Second Novel Willies”
Many readers ask me these days what I’m writing next. Do I mind talking about it? Of course not, I say. And I don’t. The more I talk about it, the more real it becomes: I declare, I’m writing a second...
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