Comments on: Weekly Wrap: Community. http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/ where writers come to play Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25798 Susan Henderson Mon, 07 May 2007 13:36:16 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25798 Carolyn - Everyone remembers getting lost. I find that so interesting. I used to try to get lost. I liked the panic of it. Then again, I was an odd kid. Robin - Your family story would require <I>several</i> books. Lauren - I love the concept of the books. All the good children's books get rid of those parents in the first chapter so the real adventure can begin. n.l. - LitPlanet will not have a crafts table. Carolyn - Everyone remembers getting lost. I find that so interesting. I used to try to get lost. I liked the panic of it. Then again, I was an odd kid.

Robin - Your family story would require several books.

Lauren - I love the concept of the books. All the good children’s books get rid of those parents in the first chapter so the real adventure can begin.

n.l. - LitPlanet will not have a crafts table.

]]> By: n.l. belardes http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25170 n.l. belardes Sat, 05 May 2007 01:37:47 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25170 I want to go to LitPlanet and start a sushi bar and craft table in one. Books descend from the ceiling and people wear them in their hair. I want to go to LitPlanet and start a sushi bar and craft table in one. Books descend from the ceiling and people wear them in their hair.

]]> By: LaurenBaratz-Logsted http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25125 LaurenBaratz-Logsted Fri, 04 May 2007 21:52:15 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25125 Thanks, Susan! Robin, THE SISTERS EIGHT is about a group of octulpets who will soon be eight years old and whose parents disappear one New Year's Eve. I'm thinking Series of Unfortunate Events for a slightly younger audience. We originally came up with the concept while stranded in Colorado in December. My seven-year-old had an idea for me to do a book about eight sisters. She wanted them to be different ages at first, but then I suggested that rarest of things, octuplets. We just kept brainstorming from there. :) After the first draft, since the missing mother is a scientist, my husband thought there should be all kinds of weird inventions all over the house so he dreamed up all these bizarre things for me - I swear, if not for that man, there would be no talking refrigerator in the Sisters Eight! That's probably TMI, but...you did ask! Thanks, Susan!

Robin, THE SISTERS EIGHT is about a group of octulpets who will soon be eight years old and whose parents disappear one New Year’s Eve. I’m thinking Series of Unfortunate Events for a slightly younger audience. We originally came up with the concept while stranded in Colorado in December. My seven-year-old had an idea for me to do a book about eight sisters. She wanted them to be different ages at first, but then I suggested that rarest of things, octuplets. We just kept brainstorming from there. :) After the first draft, since the missing mother is a scientist, my husband thought there should be all kinds of weird inventions all over the house so he dreamed up all these bizarre things for me - I swear, if not for that man, there would be no talking refrigerator in the Sisters Eight!

That’s probably TMI, but…you did ask!

]]> By: Robin Slick http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25115 Robin Slick Fri, 04 May 2007 20:42:45 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25115 Lauren! That's amazing! Man, what I wouldn't give to do a book with my family -- this must be the most incredible dream come true ever. What will the books be about? Or...if you want...just shoot us all a link to the official news. Lauren! That’s amazing! Man, what I wouldn’t give to do a book with my family — this must be the most incredible dream come true ever.

What will the books be about? Or…if you want…just shoot us all a link to the official news.

]]> By: Carolyn Burns Bass http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25108 Carolyn Burns Bass Fri, 04 May 2007 20:17:38 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25108 The closest I came to summer camp was Vacation Bible School, a week of evening crafts and Bible stories put on at our neighbor's church. My older sister got to make a very cool cross with burnt wooden matches; I didn't. Sadly, that's all I remember. Oh yeah, the big, old dilapidated church bus got lost in the hills of a very wealthy neighborhood while looking for a kid's house. That was the most exciting part of the week. But I'd LOVE to go to LitCamp! The closest I came to summer camp was Vacation Bible School, a week of evening crafts and Bible stories put on at our neighbor’s church. My older sister got to make a very cool cross with burnt wooden matches; I didn’t. Sadly, that’s all I remember. Oh yeah, the big, old dilapidated church bus got lost in the hills of a very wealthy neighborhood while looking for a kid’s house. That was the most exciting part of the week.

But I’d LOVE to go to LitCamp!

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25106 Susan Henderson Fri, 04 May 2007 20:08:30 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25106 Lauren - That's so fantastic! And they're the lucky ones to have snatched you up! (Anxiously awaiting comical tales from Co-writing Hell....) Lauren - That’s so fantastic! And they’re the lucky ones to have snatched you up! (Anxiously awaiting comical tales from Co-writing Hell….)

]]> By: LaurenBaratz-Logsted http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25102 LaurenBaratz-Logsted Fri, 04 May 2007 19:42:30 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25102 If you insist, Susan. (blushing) I think it's OK for me to say that Houghton Mifflin offered on the first four books in a children's series to be written by me with my husband and daughter, and we have happily accepted. Oh, and I just got my copies of Noveltown - cool! If you insist, Susan. (blushing) I think it’s OK for me to say that Houghton Mifflin offered on the first four books in a children’s series to be written by me with my husband and daughter, and we have happily accepted.

Oh, and I just got my copies of Noveltown - cool!

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25096 Susan Henderson Fri, 04 May 2007 19:13:07 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25096 lance - I was hoping I'd get a smile out of you. Nathalie - So happy to know you're visiting TK's blog. He inspires me. Robin - I have to talk to you about the school of rock that's opening in my neck of the woods but my new email program's a pain (i.e. different than what I'm used to)and I'm putting it off. BTW, I couldn't work with lanyard. I had pretty low frustration tolerance when I was a kid. Of course, if it was easier to catch fire, I would have been all about lanyard. Oh, and Rusty's wife works pretty high up at B&N and could probably give you the answer, which I'd guess might be no. Still, it's worth it to ask. Aurelio - I wonder if you could have talked me into making sand candles and such. I'm guessing I might have been the kid to make you want to quit working at summer camps. n.l. - I saw that photo of Aurelio the other day and thought it was mighty cute and nerdy of him. Julie - Sneaking out of camp sounds fun. Jody - You have another essay to write! I hear you loud and clear about the eyebrow business. Aurelio - When LitPark starts getting 100,000 visitors a day, I'll give serious thought to LitCamp. You and Adrienne can certainly take those positions. Lance and I will do the pyrotechnics show. Lauren - I just read your news!!! Tell everyone, come on! lance - I was hoping I’d get a smile out of you.

Nathalie - So happy to know you’re visiting TK’s blog. He inspires me.

Robin - I have to talk to you about the school of rock that’s opening in my neck of the woods but my new email program’s a pain (i.e. different than what I’m used to)and I’m putting it off. BTW, I couldn’t work with lanyard. I had pretty low frustration tolerance when I was a kid. Of course, if it was easier to catch fire, I would have been all about lanyard. Oh, and Rusty’s wife works pretty high up at B&N and could probably give you the answer, which I’d guess might be no. Still, it’s worth it to ask.

Aurelio - I wonder if you could have talked me into making sand candles and such. I’m guessing I might have been the kid to make you want to quit working at summer camps.

n.l. - I saw that photo of Aurelio the other day and thought it was mighty cute and nerdy of him.

Julie - Sneaking out of camp sounds fun.

Jody - You have another essay to write! I hear you loud and clear about the eyebrow business.

Aurelio - When LitPark starts getting 100,000 visitors a day, I’ll give serious thought to LitCamp. You and Adrienne can certainly take those positions. Lance and I will do the pyrotechnics show.

Lauren - I just read your news!!! Tell everyone, come on!

]]> By: LaurenBaratz-Logsted http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25095 LaurenBaratz-Logsted Fri, 04 May 2007 19:11:58 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25095 We can only do the LitPark camp thing if no one laughs at my crafts. We can only do the LitPark camp thing if no one laughs at my crafts.

]]> By: Aurelio http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25073 Aurelio Fri, 04 May 2007 17:16:36 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/05/04/weekly-wrap-community/#comment-25073 Just to clarify: In that picture on Nick's blog, I'm pushing up my glasses, not shoving my entire hand up my nose. And shouldn't Adrienne Brodeur be, like, the Activities Director or something of <B>LitCamp</B>, since she already wrote the book on <B><a HREF="http://www.gotomancamp.com/" rel="nofollow">Man Camp</A></B>? Just to clarify: In that picture on Nick’s blog, I’m pushing up my glasses, not shoving my entire hand up my nose.

And shouldn’t Adrienne Brodeur be, like, the Activities Director or something of LitCamp, since she already wrote the book on Man Camp?

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