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JessicaLeader

  1. On the blog:: I'm still here! jessicaleader.com/blog/2012/04/i…
  2. @SandyBoynton I think you should get the Nobel someday,anyway! How much happiness&literacy have you spread? Plus insight into animal kingdom
  3. Thanks for following me, @CicadaMagazine! I feel so honored.Cicadas are so intriguing (though I know you're a tween lit mag, not re: bugs.)
  4. Author Kimberly Dana interviewed me about writing and NICE AND MEAN! I share secrets for getting over writer's block. ow.ly/9LwlR
  5. And if anyone wants to tell me their favorite middle-grade mystery titles, I am all ears.
  6. @origamiyoda Has to be Luke, b/c Luke is the hero of the series...right? Oh, I can't wait for this book to come out!
  7. Have a great new book idea that will require lots of reading. Oh, twist my arm!
  8. @rugsusa Please take me off ASAP!
  9. @rugsusa I have tried to unsubscribe from you for months, and still it has not gone through! I regret that I ever ordered from you spammers
  10. @meemtip And the truth comes out: I have the same emotional rxns as 11-year-old girls. (but yrs got award for being nice recently, so yay!)
  11. and usually I only laugh at that show!! #glee
  12. I totally cried all through #glee (except for the singing numbers--unexpectedly terrible), and then a cliffhanger w/my fave char? noooo!
  13. @savannahhake How did you see it coming? b/c she reached such a good place? b/c of the texting? eee! #Glee
  14. Just realized I have to/can combine 2 characters. Makes 1 dead-wood character come more into foreground. Yay, fiction unlike real life!
  15. @bethfishreads So funny--I've definitely had to follow people I was sure I was following. What's with the unsubscribing, Twitter?
  16. Help! Gray bar at bottom of screen and other windows no longer lined up at bottom of screen. Why? Help! I beg!
  17. @wastepaperprose Where did you move to? I am now in DC, so I'm guessing 'up the road' is further away!
  18. @wastepaperprose It's true! I have a baby now. Much less time to tweet! HOw are you?
  19. Check out a new picture-book review site for a chance to win $25! @kidbookratings is hilario, too. Contest at ow.ly/8Nmhq
  20. SLJ's Battle of the Books line-up announced! ow.ly/8Oz9P Special yay for @UmaKrishnaswami and @FrannyBillingsley, VCFA fac!