Category Archives: writing

Five for Friday

Posted on September 9, 2011 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

My friend Wendy Shang wrote once (in her blog? on Facebook?) about how psyched she was when she got her first ISBN number. I totally understood what she was saying this week when I got my own. It came with … Continue reading →

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Serendipity

Posted on August 22, 2011 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

The Savages lived two houses down from us on our dead-end street in Blacksburg, Va. I never knew Lon Savage well because when you’re a kid, adults only seem to enter your life when they yell at you (the Savages … Continue reading →

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The Mostly True Story of Jack and Kelly

Posted on July 25, 2011 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

I’ve decided that when I say “today on the couch” I sound too much like a therapist. Besides, Kelly Barnhill, another member of The Lindsay Situation*, doesn’t seem like the sort of person who sits still for very long. If … Continue reading →

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Ruta Sepetys: Between Shades of Gray

Posted on March 1, 2011 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

A few years ago a woman named Lindsay Davis opened my manuscript and became my agent. For me it was a total Sally Field moment. Someone who wasn’t in my critique group, someone I wasn’t married to or the mother … Continue reading →

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Maine-iacs

Posted on August 10, 2010 by madelynruth@yahoo.com

You know you haven’t blogged in awhile when you can’t even remember how to log in. I’m writing this in word, hoping to figure things out later when my eyes aren’t bleary from the road. Just back from our summer … Continue reading →

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