MarcyKate Connolly

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Singing Pugs + Presents = My Birthday!

Singing Pugs + Presents = My Birthday!

It’s that time of year again — flow­ers are bloom­ing, every­thing is green, and I get another year older. I’m rather fond of being alive, so I think this is a very happy thing to cel­e­brate!



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The Write Stuff For Boston Auction!

The Write Stuff For Boston Auction!

The lovely K.T. Crow­ley has put together an auc­tion called The Write Stuff for Boston to ben­e­fit those affected by the Boston Marathon bomb­ings. If you’ve read my post from ear­lier last week, then you know this is a cause close to my heart. Many amaz­ing writ­ers, agents, edi­tors, etc have donated items and the bid­ding is now open!



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This Is Why I Write

This Is Why I Write

Over the past few days, I’ve been pro­cess­ing the hor­ri­ble things that hap­pened last week and try­ing to artic­u­late its effect. This is not the first instance of ter­ror attacks in the US, and sadly it prob­a­bly won’t be the last. It wasn’t even the dead­liest event that hap­pened dur­ing those few days. But the dif­fer­ence for me is that this was in my home.



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I Love NY (SCBWI)

I Love NY (SCBWI)

A few weeks ago I had the plea­sure of attend­ing the Win­ter SCBWI con­fer­ence in New York City. It was a whirl­wind of a weekend–part slum­ber party, part net­work­ing extrav­a­ganza. In short, I had an absolute blast :)



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2012 — A Year in Books

2012 — A Year in Books

My read­ing in 2012 was down from 2011, but I also was no longer work­ing from home. Less free time = less read­ing (sad, I know!). So over­all I’m pretty happy about the 60 books I did read. It doesn’t hurt that these books rocked, either!



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ABOUT ME

I’m a writer and arts admin­is­tra­tor liv­ing in New Eng­land with my hus­band and pugs. I’m also a cof­fee addict, vora­cious reader, and recur­ring com­muter. Rep­re­sented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Lit­er­ary & Media.


(photo credit: Cheryl Colombo © 2012)

MONSTROUS

Franken­stein meets the Broth­ers Grimm in an orig­i­nal fairy­tale. Com­ing in 2014 from Harper­Collins Children’s Books!

 

SPRING FEVERS ANTHOLOGY

Spring Fevers AnthologyAn anthol­ogy of short sto­ries, Spring Fevers explores tales of rela­tion­ships in their var­ied states: love — requited and unre­quited — friend­ships dis­cov­ered and lost, fam­ily in its many guises, and the myr­iad places in between.