tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post4272500469025606349..comments2007-04-01T01:17:38.985-04:00Mitali Perkinshttps://profiles.google.com/116303560568859248981noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-45778785310448692992007-04-01T01:17:00.000-04:002007-04-01T01:17:00.000-04:00Did you submit your site at blogsearch.sg?<BR/>You can reach blogsearch by just typing <B>blogsearch.sg</B> in your browser window or <A HREF="http://www.bizleadsnet.com/" REL="nofollow">click here</A><BR/>This is a service by bizleadsnet directory of web logs.blogsearch.sghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07141754405835958340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-56691413272007611102007-03-23T10:47:00.000-04:002007-03-23T10:47:00.000-04:00Pooja, I'm honored and humbly hope to rise to the task.<BR/><BR/>Sara, have a great time at the Festival. My agent, Laura Rennert, will be there, so say hi for me.<BR/><BR/>Roger, what a list of venerable names. They explain a lot about you.<BR/><BR/>LW, you're well on your way to greatness.<BR/><BR/>And Jennifer, you raise an interesting point: a mentor must be invited to participate in the formation of a less-experienced person. You can't force your advice on someone.Mitali Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081024119047826077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-21225172318574630202007-03-22T23:35:00.000-04:002007-03-22T23:35:00.000-04:00Christopher Golden is a dear friend and an extremely talented author, so I always value his expertise.<BR/><BR/>As for the younger side, kids and teens know they can ask me for book recommendations and advice!Little Willowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17058463472836988047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-22552273957717963882007-03-22T20:45:00.000-04:002007-03-22T20:45:00.000-04:00Yes. Her name is Doris Gwaltney, (author of <I>Homefront</I>, a book that richly deserved the stars it received!) and she is like my second mother. (And she is, by chance, a dear friend of Katherine Paterson's too.)<BR/><BR/>The best piece of advice she's ever given me is this: "Sara, it's all in the manuscript. It's all in the manuscript."<BR/><BR/>I love this advice, because somehow, I always go looking outside my work for how to move forward, when what I should be exploring is already on the page. Even if there are only two words on that page, they are there for a reason...why those two words and not others?<BR/><BR/>We get to be on a book panel together this weekend at the Virginia Festival of the Book, and I'm so excited.Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-60379963436770749852007-03-22T19:59:00.000-04:002007-03-22T19:59:00.000-04:00Mentors have been very important to me: Zena Sutherland, Hazel Rochman, and Betsy Hearne (listed in the order in which I met them) all taught me a ton about kids and books and writing. Everyone should be fortunate enough to have such teachers.Roger Suttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00030627312439744621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-16544146198955534042007-03-22T15:43:00.000-04:002007-03-22T15:43:00.000-04:00That is so wonderful. I hope that you had a great time.<BR/><BR/>As far as the question, when I was a new mom in my late 20's there was a neighbor in her late 30's who was such an encouragement to me. She was still "young," and fun, and yet she had raised three kids to the ages of 5, 7, and 9 respectively. It was a pleasure.<BR/><BR/>I've known my husband's sister since she was 11 years old, since she is 10 years younger than he is. I have had the opportunity to mentor her, to an extent. We are close friends, but I still have that big sisterly need to instruct her and guide her, and she takes it pretty well :)Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789250398792504412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-32621658462643630762007-03-22T11:40:00.000-04:002007-03-22T11:40:00.000-04:00Mitali Didi! I think of you as a mentor-sister-figure :).Poojahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07819476424110723165noreply@blogger.com