by Linda Phillips | Dec 30, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m not in the business of movie reviews, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to rave about “The King’s Speech.” The only thing I found disappointing was the fact that this historically accurate account of King George VI’s battle with stuttering was not derived from...
by Linda Phillips | Dec 24, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
My friend, Karol Matthews, has been instrumental in spearheading a tutoring program called “The ROC” (Reach Out Charlotte) in a low-income area in North Charlotte. Since September 2010 she and a small group of dedicated individuals have gathered once a week to tutor...
by Linda Phillips | Nov 11, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
I started journaling around the age of ten. It was a coveted Christmas present, hard-bound with a gold embossed “L” for Linda on the cover, and a lock and key. Back then it was simply called a diary. The empty pages soon came alive in the form of Amy, my...
by Linda Phillips | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
What happens when you finally DO land an agent, after all those months, maybe years, of searching, researching, waiting, hoping, praying, crying, editing, revising, querying and rejecting? I went shopping for exotic, expensive shoes but ended up buying underwear. I...
by Linda Phillips | Sep 27, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
The theme of the SCBWI-Carolinas fall conference in Charlotte this past weekend was “Oh, the Places We’ll Go.” And where I went was away from my computer screen, out of my hole, my busy-ness, my stale state of mind, and my writer’s block and...
by Linda Phillips | Sep 21, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
For the past several months, in between teaching and family commitments, I’ve been hot on the agent pursuit with my YA novel written in verse and set in the sixties, two factors that immediately distance me from all those dystopian-paranormal-urban...
