ROAD TRIP BOOK TOUR: PART ONE* (PLUS a CONTEST!)
For the first time in my book touring life, I am going on a “road trip” instead of flying, training, busing, and rental carring. The Danika Road Trip is a special kind of road trip. Be forewarned when...
View ArticleRoad Trip Book Tour: Part Two
WINNER of the ROAD TRIP book contest is DEBBY DODDS (how in the world could I resist a book about John Waters hitchhiking?). ~ ~ ~ The first Road Trip Book Tour post was more about the Road...
View ArticleQueer as Folk
A few weeks ago I attended an art gallery opening for queer artists. I started chatting with a lovely, quirky woman about upcoming events for our local Pride Week. As we then talked about where we were...
View ArticleLife Savers
“Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are.” ~...
View ArticleHelp Her! She Spoke French!
Bonjour et bienvenue. A few months ago I started learning French via the website Duolingo. Anyone close to me knows just how amusing this is. I have a history of bludgeoning the French language. I’ve...
View ArticleDoing the Love is Enough
I haven’t posted in my blog for over four months, which I’m sure is a new record. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, it’s not that I haven’t started draft after draft… it’s that every time I sat down...
View ArticleFound Mourning: a poem and writing exercise
In a previous post I wrote about how I grew creatively stagnant after the US election, how I couldn’t convince myself that what I did as an author really meant much in the scheme of things. A few days...
View ArticleRight to Speak
~ ~ ~ I really dislike the term “thick skinned.” As in… “Ya gotta be thick-skinned, Danika, to be able to take the slings and arrows of life.” I have an idea. Why don’t people just stop slinging...
View ArticleIn Time of Transition (aka The Sloggy Book Launch)
Somewhere in the past few months I launched a book. You wouldn’t have known it unless you were paying close attention because there wasn’t much fanfare, no virtual or physical launch parties (not yet,...
View ArticleHear the adventure from the beginning…
While everyone is isolating themselves for the time being, children’s authors all over are giving virtual readings of their work. I’ve started posting my reading a chapter per day to my White Forest...
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