Blog-love for Scratchy!!!
Major thanks to Lisa Chellman, for her terrific post about Scratchy Mountains!
She’s dead-on in her association of my book with The Ordinary Princess. I had completely forgotten Kaye’s novel, until my friend Tamar mentioned it after reading Scratchy Mountains.
Though of course I loved it as a kid!!!
And when Tamar pointed out the relationship, I actually had to go re-read it, just in case I’d stolen anything accidentally. I do that sometime, because so many of the books I loved as a kid are buried so deep in my brain. Sometimes I have to edit my plagiaristic tendancies out at the end. Of course, I live in constant fear I’m missing an allusion I need to attribute.
But that’s preferable (I suppose) to living in fear of germs or ghosts or murderous ex-boyfriends.
Tags: blog review, review, scratchy mountains
October 16th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Thanks again for writing such a fun story! I’m including it in my library’s November newsletter as one of three “fun fantasies for families.”