(One could say I’m spilling over with joy, but then one would roll one’s eyes at my bad play-on-words.) Have you seen Spilling Ink? Oh my, it’s wonderful. (And here’s hoping they don’t think I’m the lamest blogger in the history of Blogistan.) Nice.Īll of that is to say that, if you like the questions below, Anne and Ellen get big-time credit for essentially interviewing themselves.

They took some of my questions and adapted them a bit, and then they came up with some questions of their own. Would you accept an open invitation to say whatever you’d like about the book and I promise to work it up into a nice post? I gave them some basic guiding questions, mind you, but what they returned to me is what you see below. (Still my fault.) Finally, I said to them: I haven’t forgotten, but I’m so swamped. And that would be because I contacted them a long while ago about their wonderful new handbook on writing for kids, Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook (Roaring Brook, March 2010), told them I loved it, and asked them if they’d like to stop by 7-Imp to talk briefly about it.

For that reason, my visitors to the 7-Imp bungalow this morning, authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter, deserve an award. I have been doing my own writing lately, occasionally feeling a lot like the young girl featured here, and that has made 2010 Busier Than Normal.

Working Days by Anne Mazer