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...
by Linda Phillips | Jul 22, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
Once in a while there is good news like the Charlotte Observer article featuring Mike Weaver, a former teacher from Charlotte who has learned to live with bipolar disease. After battling with his disease for a while, Weaver switched to a career in mental health in...
by Linda Phillips | Jul 13, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
Mental health is always on my mind. Maybe it’s because the protagonist in my ready-to-be-published book is frightened out of her skin by watching her mother slowly unravel not once, but twice. Laura, my fourteen-year-old main character, can’t get a straight answer...
by Linda Phillips | Jun 6, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
I have a work-in-progress about one teenage girl’s view of craziness. It’s been my WIP for longer than I’m willing to admit so you have to know I am living it and breathing it at this point. In fact, I am so sick of it I am ready to upchuck it and quickly clean up the...
