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Games & Books & Q&A: Glenn “Commander” Banton of Operation Supply Drop
Glenn “Commander” Banton, the board chairman and executive director of Operation Supply Drop (OSD), is the next interviewee from the field of gaming in my Games & Books & Q&A series. OSD is...
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Games & Books & Q&A: P.J. Hoover
I knew as soon as I saw how P.J. Hoover was promoting her latest book that she would be a great addition to the Games & Books & Q&A series of interviews with gaming professionals about...
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Games & Books & Q&A: Rachel Simone Weil
I’m really pleased to be joined in this installment of my Games & Books & Q&A series by a video game historian, and by the creator of NES games and glitch art under the alias Party Time!...
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Boing Boing, Polygon, The Escapist, and N3rdabl3 on Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!
Boy, has there been a lot of coverage of Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet these past few days. It’s all been great to see, and you can see for yourself at Boing Boing… My 11-year-old...
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And in between our sets, we can swap hair-care tips
After the Texas Book Festival in Austin on October 25-26, I’ll be able to add “Opened for Ziggy Marley” to my resume. Remember, parents: You’ll want to arrive early at the Children’s Tent to see...
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Why, yes — it has been a while…
It’s been three and a half years to the day since the publication of my previous book, Can I See Your I.D.?, and today also brings the release of my new book, Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s...
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Make art, celebrate video games, win a book!
Joey Spiotto, the illustrator of Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet, has got a kid-friendly, art-loving, videogame-celebrating book giveaway going on. He’s taking contest entries via...
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Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! review in Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
I’m so delighted this morning to see Pamela Price’s review of Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet added to the list of resources offered by the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF). Here’s GHF’s...
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Bartography Express for October 2014, featuring Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A...
How many copies of my new book, Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet, am I giving away this month to subscribers of my monthly newsletter? Three. How many opportunities do readers have between...
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Scenes from the public debut of Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!
Thanks for capturing these moments, @msphillipsclass! The Q&A after my debut reading of Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet at the Texas Book Festival today included the following...
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Some things I learned from writing Shark Vs. Train and Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!
I’ve got a new guest-post at Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations blog on the roles my kids played (and they roles they didn’t) in the creation of my picture books Shark Vs. Train and Attack! Boss!...
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Who you’ll find in Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet
I absolutely love this peek at the characters that illustrator Joey Spiotto created for Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! But, man, is it tough being a dragon.
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Researching, writing about, talking about and — yes — playing video games
Recently I was struggling to remember the name of the YA novel I had read that got me all choked up at the very end, but then I realized it hadn’t been a novel at all. It had been… …a video game. But...
View ArticleGoodbye, YALSA! Hello, ILF and B&N!
Keeping it really weird panel! #yalit14 pic.twitter.com/JQaliwMS2m — Paula J. Gallagher (@paulajgal) November 16, 2014 There’s nothing better than a crowd of librarians and authors to remind me how...
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In which I talk with Katie Davis about gaming, writing, marketing, and 85 or...
I’m a few days late to the party, thanks to my participation in the YALSA and ILF events, but I’m happy this morning to share with you this recently recorded interview I did for Katie Davis’ kidlit...
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Bartography Express for November 2014, featuring K.A. Holt’s Rhyme Schemer
This month, one subscriber to my Bartography Express newsletter will win a copy of Rhyme Schemer (Chronicle), the new middle-grade novel in verse by Kari Anne Holt. If you’re not already receiving...
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In case you’re wondering where to shelve Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!…
…I think this Barnes & Noble has the right idea: Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! + LEGO + Minecraft? Sure — I’m OK with that. Oh, and + Frozen? That looks pretty good, too.
View ArticleNot a bad 24 hours for Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!
The past day has brought this review from game developer and enthusiast Eduardo Baraf: And this appreciation (and giveaway!) of Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet from librarian Margie...
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Podcast interview: Life. Leadership. Video Games. And me.
I really enjoyed my conversation this fall with Jon Harrison, author the upcoming book Mastering The Game: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Success In Life, who interviewed me for his...
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Bartography on Pinterest
Just a reminder, for those of you on Pinterest, that I’ve got pages there for each of my books: The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer’s Alphabet Can I See Your I.D.? True...
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