RAWing with Clicked also known as the Porn Book
Chapter One Friday, October 8 Evening of Fenton High homecoming football game “Welcome home, Carson,” Dad says as I walk in the front door. I mumble a non-response, then quickly […]
RAWing on launch day
FinchBooks is open for business
RAWing with Finch Books
Tomorrow everything will have Clicked.
RAWing with grown men (and women) in their underwear pretending to hurt each other
I am a lifelong fan of professional wrestling, so how cool that in addition to doing this blog, I also blog at Sporster (which is funny since pro wrestling is […]
RAWing with YA literature at the college level
I’m just about to teach Young Adult Literature (LIT 332) at a local university (although I teach it online) for the 3rd year. Students are assigned to read these books, […]
RAWing on the Level
A few years ago I became involved with a writing project to create content for the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI). This is a “small-group, supplementary literacy intervention designed to […]
RAWing with school visits
School is out this week, so thought I’d throw up some photos from 2015 school visits, the majority of them made to alternative schools. Contact me patrick@connectingya.com directly for school […]
RAWing with Families Affected by Incarceration
According to the website for the Strengthening Families Affected by Incarceration about 2.7 million children won’t be celebrating the holidays with a parent because that parent is behind bars. On any given day, […]
RAWing with Shawn Goodman
1. Tell me how you got started writing, in particular writing for teens. What is it that draws you to tell the story of teens, in particular those growing up […]
RAWing with VOYA
So, I’m on the cover of the December 2015 issue of VOYA aka The Voice of Youth Advocates (next to the word Clueless which the editor assures me was not an editorial […]