Saracen Heart

Cin Ali In Turkish, the letter C is pronounced like a J, so the title above is really "Jin Ali". Cin Ali was the star of a w...

Ararat I'm guessing most of us have heard Neil Gaiman's brilliant - BRILLIANT - speech at The Univerity of the Arts. (If you hav...

Yunus Emre - Büyükçekmece , Istanbul Let a word mature inside yourself. Withhold the unripened thought. Come and understand the kind of...

The Crown of Embers I got a healthy stack of YA galleys from my local indie, Park Road Books , and Rae Carson's new one was in the p...

Nâzım Hikmet Ran I'm in revisions right now, so my research-type blogging is on hold (until June 10), BUT I thought I'd feature ...

No Girls Allowed? The SCBWI Carolinas conference in September already looms large, and I have to make a decision about an ms. Soon. ...

Bodrum at Night I'm stressed. I sent out four queries last week, submitted an R&R, and somehow got myself into a writing contest...