#beloved author

[sortumavaara]

I wanted to let you know that both the joy of reading your comment on my fic and the feeling like there was indeed more story that needed to be told, I've added a second chapter to The Journey of a Thousand Miles if you're interested

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41341245/chapters/105158061

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Adsjjkf beloved author added a chapter?? Because of me??

I will get to it when I am released from the evil clutches of statistics and linear regression models. (Hopefully later today)

[amerasdreams]

Ideal life:

A house filled with kids and animals. I work on writing and research in the morning. I homeschool and have my own business from home. I go volunteering and go to events. I have a farm where I rescue animals. Foster and adopt. I go traveling around the US to different countries several times a year

[poetsandwriters]

One of the things I’ve always fought off is becoming a beloved writer…Once you get to be at a certain level of mastery, you get to be beloved. That’s something that I don’t really care about. Beloved author? Why is that important for me to become? It’s not. You want to read a book with blood. A lot of it.

Louise Erdrich (Chicago Review of Books, 2016)

[edwardglitterhandss]

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.

 Sir Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

RIP

[blackchildrensbooksandauthors]

Walter Dean Myers, Prolific and Beloved Author of Award-Winning Children’s Books, Dies at Age 76

Myers touched so many with his eloquent and unflinching portrayal of young African American lives

Walter Dean Myers, beloved and deeply respected children’s book author, died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness. He was 76 years old.

In a career spanning over 45 years, Walter Dean Myers wrote more than 100 books for children of all ages. His impressive body of work includes two Newbery Honor Books, three National Book Award Finalists, and six Coretta Scott King Award/Honor-winning books. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. In 2010, Walter was the United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 2012 he was appointed the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, serving a two-year tenure in the position…continue reading

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[theredwallrecorder]

Reasons to Love Brian Jacques:

1. Creator of Redwall.

2. Just look at this amazing guy.