Catherine Linka
@cblinka
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Author of WHAT I WANT YOU TO SEE (freeform 2020) and A GIRL CALLED FEARLESS. VCFA MFA, explorer, birder, dog mom
Pacific Northwest
Joined March 2009
RT @stephanimeaton: So excited about my interview with @vcfawcya classmates @GhostwriterMo & @vashleywalker on Cynsations today. They talk….
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Tween and even some teen readers grab on to manga, graphic novels, and novels in verse in part because these literary forms feel accessible. Emerging readers don't have the same confidence adult readers do.
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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” .Edgar Degas
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Upon reading the YA novel, WHAT I WANT YOU TO SEE, August Rodin called it "thought provoking.". Paperback release 4/26/22 from @LittleBrownYR
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Nothing I love more than an underdog win!.
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RT @simonteen: The Queen’s Gambit meets The Hunger Games in #Trigger, a YA thriller from @N_Griffin that's out 3/29. .
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Spring migrants are back in the PNW and I swear there's mockingjay in the woods across the road.
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Channing Tatum and a German Shepard are just about the only reasons I can see for going to the movies right now.
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Six stages of novel writing: genesis, questioning, dedication, despair, revelation, relief.
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1st novel writing class I took @kerrymadden recommended the Synonym Finder. Writers often tell me they are dazzled by the verbs I employ. I don't have a secret stash, but I do have this book.
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Most of the time I take a Bauhaus approach to writing backstory. Less is more.
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When I was a bookseller, I hosted #BrianSelznick. Hundreds of students from 4 schools came. It was a lot of work, but Brian was kind and generous. He even sent me a handwritten thank you. More guest authors should show their appreciation the way he did.
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Writers looking for stories that employ backstory the right way--check out THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN by @sharpegirl.
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our town.
So much smoke blanketing the foothill communities right now. Here's the view(?) of La Crescenta, La Cañada Flintridge and some of Pasadena from the Verdugo Mountains. #BobcatFire . Check out the time lapse overnight here:
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Latest map of Bobcat Fire.
Watching sunrise over the #bobcatfire from @MtWilsonObs: Here's another view, combining MODIS detection with @googleearth. Note that the new fire detections are the red ones.
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