tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65366100907617130952011-09-19T11:13:48.543-07:00rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-84992257310022577882011-08-14T13:55:00.000-07:002011-08-14T13:56:01.125-07:00

Yes. The SCBWI has turned forty. I didn't think... (Click here to read more)

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I sit at my desk listening to summer raindrops...(Click here to read more)

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This post is dedicated to my dear friend Marilyn Donahue. Click here to see the rest.

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Rilla: Think I'm going to fly. To Italy. Todayeeeee, yeah! Have me a little Tuscan holidayeeeee. Yeah!! To read the rest of this post click here...

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Is everyone having trouble with their Google accounts or is it just me. I've been asked to sign in about a hundred times, even though I'm already signed in...grrrr.

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Watch Out! You are now entering the desert...(click here to read more)

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Abadiania, Brasil. An hour and a half from Brasilia...(Read More)

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Brasilia the capital in all (Read More)

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'Twas the night before...Click here to read more.

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If only I could dance like...that!

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Ah! Spain! The sights, the sounds, the food, the wine. In June, we spent three glorious weeks traveling through the country, starting out in Madrid, driving through Andalucia...(Read more, click here.)

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-73129763363958090802010-08-04T13:25:00.000-07:002010-08-04T13:25:54.850-07:00

WHERE ELSE… …would you find children’s writers who loom larger than life...Click here to read more

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I spent the last week in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania. Where? No, the map doesn't know where it is...but the magic does. The Highlights Whole Novel Workshop for Fantasy, in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania. (Read the rest of this post here)

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Get an editor! Click here to read the rest of the post.

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Yesterday was the SCBWI-LA's Writer's Day and the combined creative talent seated in that one room was enough to give little me writer's block...(Read more here.)

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Served up by Netflix — Tomb Raider! Yes, I did actually put this movie into my queue…for a reason.(Click here to read the rest of this post.)

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Well, February has snuck up on me. It’s that sort of month. (Click here to read more.)

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So. I’m on a diet. Invariably, the holiday season has its tradeoffs. A time of reckoning (Click here to read more...)

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It has rained here in southern California for five days in a row.The lawn is a pond creeping across the patio and lapping at our back door.(Click here to read the rest of this post)

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Sunny and seventy-four, Sunday in early January. The desert calls. (Read more...)

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Our blog has a NEW HOME!Click Here to visit where rilla and Rilla will hang out from now on. Welcome to the houswarming party!

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Note: this is an ongoing series about our trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia in December, 2009. Part I of this account can be found here.Big plans for our first full day in Siem Reap. My trusty guidebook* offered the following advice - Angkor temples generally have four entrances, one facing each cardinal point. The eastern entrance is the main one most of the time as it faces the rising sun,

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I gaze out the airplane window at flat green land with irregular rectangles for fields and an enormous lake in the distance where trees stand knee-deep in water. The plane touches down and stops a short distance from a low elegant building with a tiled-roof that looks more like a Buddhist monastery than an airport. The doors open, we step out into warm-moist air and down onto the tarmac at Siem

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"The Google Book Search Settlement is a sweeping agreement that shifts the ground on copyright, and has far-reaching implications for the future of books. Whether to opt in or out is a complex, difficult decision. Authors should strive to inform themselves as fully as possible (a tour of the links below should help with that), and should not allow themselves to be swayed by the small amount of

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Excuse me....rilla: Go Away.Rilla: Hello! Hi! I'm Rilla...your alter...rilla: I SAID, Go Away!Rilla: All right. Be that way. I was going to show you...rilla: Show me what?Rilla: Never mind. You told

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-43427251719749292692009-08-12T13:41:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:14:57.440-08:00

Another SCBWI summer conference is over, sigh. The good news is that as always I came away with so much -- enthusiasm, energy, motivation, excitement and...QUOTES:Sherman Alexie-- Kids all of all classes and backgrounds feel the same way--Trapped. They send out the same message--My choices are being made for me.David Wiesner attempts to put the familiar into a different context.Kadir Nelson -- A

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Weird. Last night I dreamed we invited Neil Gaiman to dinner.Rilla: Neil who? No...really. Who is Neil, and why would we want him over for dinner?rilla: You don't know who Neil Gaiman is? He wrote

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-48784740153028976742009-02-19T13:37:00.000-08:002010-01-03T16:18:57.561-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionDon't forget to vote on your favorite book cover seen at the end of this post, when you comment. Thanks!Rilla: What are you doing?rilla: Writing a book review.Rilla: But...you can barely see.rilla: I

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-31086724270207880922009-01-20T13:00:00.000-08:002010-01-03T16:23:44.008-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Yes!rilla: Sorry?Rilla: I'm so glad you asked.rilla: About what?Rilla: If I had a fabulous time in Sydney. I did!rilla: I didn't ask.Rilla: Oh.rilla: I didn't even know you'd been to Sydney.Rilla:

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Do it.rilla: ...Rilla: DO it!rilla: ...Rilla: Just write one word!rilla: Word.Rilla: THERE! You did it!rilla: Now what?Rilla: Now you're over your blogger's block. You have officially created a new

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-34899136892985272072008-05-29T14:55:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:25:08.543-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Wake up!Rilla: Huh?rilla: Wake up, I said!Rilla: Huh? What, where?rilla: WAKE UP, RIGHT NOW, YOU NINNY!Rilla: OK, all right. I’m up, keep the beard on.rilla: Who do you think you are, Rip Van Winkle?

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-54471463424491387632007-12-18T19:03:00.000-08:002010-01-03T16:25:42.220-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Humph! No people in my pictures! That’s what rilla says. Does she even look at my pictures? LOOK at all these people I photographed while we were in India. There are so many everyday images I

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-26714992510609636832007-12-13T10:26:00.000-08:002010-01-03T16:27:26.241-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: The grass is green, the leaves are red, the mountains are white, the sky is blue, another brilliant fall day in southern California. Oh how I…rilla: Not much of a poet are you?Rilla: Poet? One can

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-43110011812802288532007-12-05T16:15:00.000-08:002010-01-03T16:28:07.514-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: BET you’ll never guess what those are.rilla: They’re ancient hair-dryers…Rilla: Wha…? How did you know?rilla: Umm… it says so in the picture…Rilla: Oh. It does. Aren’t they cool? I guess they combed

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-91645709565506765282007-12-01T19:30:00.000-08:002010-01-03T16:29:03.427-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Can you believe it… it’s December already?!rilla: DECEMBER? WHAT HAPPENED TO SEPTEMBER… AND OCTOBER, AND NOVEMBER?Rilla: Boy, where’ve you been?rilla: When did it become December? What’ve you been

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-72113311460946567282007-10-05T09:41:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:29:32.932-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Yuck! It’s sticky…rilla: Mm…so pleasant…Rilla: Ick…sweaty…rilla: Such a lovely breeze and the ceiling fan’s on…Rilla: Pouring rain…again!rilla: Falling water…so soothing …I love the sound of rain…don

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-83997218996120062022007-09-15T23:06:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:30:23.052-08:00

Fog-Gi: Wonder where they went. They were gone three whole nights. That’s never happened before…Sha-Do: Don’t know, don’t care…just tell them NEVER to do it again.Fog-Gi: I don’t know…I quite had fun.Sha-Do: Yeah…that’s just ‘coz you were sweet on that pretty cat-sitter.Fog-Gi: Me sweet…what about you…? Rubbing up against her legs…oh look at me…I have the most gorgeous eyes… did you notice… they’

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-35884768884331557262007-08-25T22:42:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:31:27.405-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: WHAT?rilla: What…what?Rilla: What’s with the title …?rilla: Title...?Rilla: Uh-huh…the NIGHT ARTHUR LEVINE CAME TO MY HOTEL ROOM? Excuse me…?rilla: Oh…that…Rilla: Yes… that…WELL…?rilla: Will you stop

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-19383811137837685022007-08-16T19:11:00.001-07:002010-01-03T16:56:27.265-08:00

One of my favorite times of the conference...the last day...when authors and illustrators sit down to sign their books for you...talk to you...draw for you...answer your questions...give of themselves...promising that one day you will be where they sit today...you only have to dream...dream big...dream big as Hattie's Sky...there is no other way to go...Words of wisdom from Kirby Larson:"

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-21881260527823184732007-08-14T16:30:00.000-07:002010-01-03T17:04:23.677-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionSusan Patron, 2007 Newbery Award Winner and John Green, Michael Printz Award Winner -- Whoa!Rilla: Umm…rilla: What?Rilla: ARE WE EVER GETTING DOWN FROM HERE?rilla: Oh…I’m still floating…Rilla: …without a

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-88871197149540100052007-08-11T22:44:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:34:38.543-08:00

Day TWO:Kadir Nelson: Words and PaintingsIllustrator – Henry’s Freedom Box, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to FreedomNot too many artists are more beautiful in person than their work is. Kadir Nelson is one of them. And that’s not because his art isn’t…beautiful…it’s magnificent.Some of Kadir’s wisdom:“When things make you angry, you have a choice of doing something negative or

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-52720861047406301552007-08-09T21:49:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:35:02.311-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Mmm…rilla: Yes?Rilla: Uh…rilla: Is there something you want to say?Rilla: Look down.rilla: Where?Rilla: Your feet.rilla: My feet? What’s wrong with my feet?Rilla: They’re not…exactly…touching the

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-62718516598807199622007-07-28T00:14:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:36:05.333-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Today I am interviewing, children’s author, rilla, about a book for young adults she recently read – Faeries of Dreamdark- Blackbringer by writer and artist, Oregon dweller, Laini Taylor.rilla: Wow,

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: The Lives of Othersrilla: Pardon? Others? What’s wrong with our life?Rilla: It’s the title of a movie…rilla: Oh. What about it?Rilla: Saw it last night. Where were you?rilla:

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionWeigh in on the debate...leave a comment...see the SCORE so far.rilla: Just don’t understand how so many people who write for children can say they don’t like fantasy…Rilla: I hate fantasy…rilla: You don’t

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-55956249366974484132007-07-16T10:36:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:37:17.130-08:00

Sha-Do: What’s she doing?Fog-Gi: I’ve no idea.Sha-Do: It’s not time for her mid-morning nap.Fog-Gi: Nor her mid-afternoon nap.Sha-Do: Can’t be her early evening nap either.Fog-Gi: But she’s lying down.Sha-Do: On the floor.Fog-Gi: She never takes a nap on the floor.Sha-Do: And look at that grimace on her face.Fog-Gi: Hmm…she doesn’t notice us.Sha-Do: Hey, what if I jump up on the banister…Fog-Gi:

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-15214412909777133202007-07-06T18:57:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:37:54.001-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Ribbit.Rilla: Rabbit?rilla: Ribbit.Rilla: A frog?rilla: Croak.Rilla: OK, you do mean frogs.rilla: The frogs croaked.Rilla: That’s what they tend to do…rilla: More than one meaning to the word croaked

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-56061873875963751912007-07-02T10:24:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:52:58.391-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: What are you working on now?rilla: LynNerd has given me an assignment.Rilla: Is that a euphemism for being tagged with another meme?rilla: If I say yes will you go for a loop and explode again?Rilla

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: I’ve been tagged.Rilla: Tagged?rilla: Yeah, with a meme…Rilla: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute…is this like that movie Groundhog’s Day? You already said that in the last post…the one you’

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: I’ve been tagged.Rilla: Tagged?rilla: Yeah, with a meme.Rilla: Oh, you mean with that eight things about you meme…that’s haunting cyberspace and popping up constantly where you least expect it…

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Ewww…!Rilla: What are you ewwing about now…?rilla: There’s a lizard tail on the mat outside the backdoor and it’s wriggling…Rilla: Ah. Those cats. Can’t get enough of the lizard tails.rilla: But it’s

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Rilla: Just me here, today. rilla's off writing somewhere. So, I thought I'd surprise her. I'm just so tired of watching her go through that favorites list of hers, on her browser, whenever she wants to find information on a publisher or agent or a useful link tucked away somewhere in the miles and miles of links. Writers! Not a very organized bunch!Well, here's what I did. I organized her links

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--Fog-Gi: What is that?Sha-Do: I don’t know…some kind of colors in a pattern on a sheet of paper.Fog-Gi: Yeah, but what is it?Sha-Do: I said I don’t know. She’s been staring at it for a long time. First she smiles, then she goes all teary, then she smiles again, now she’s laughing…weird!Fog-Gi: Maybe it’s something magical…has some strange power over her to make her nutty.Sha-Do: You think she

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Hey, what’s the matter? Never see you look unhappy.Rilla: It’s nothing. I’m not the unhappy type.rilla: Ah…unlike me, huh?Rilla: Yeah, just because of some little bird… doesn’t mean…no…I never get

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-90418598487401847452007-06-07T11:00:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:41:57.907-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Whistling! Been a while since I’ve heard you whistling!rilla: Mmm…Rilla: You know what they say -- whistling girls and crowing hens are an abomination…rilla: Who says?Rilla: Huh? Oh never mind. Why’

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-43459936109161337742007-06-04T12:20:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:42:27.103-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: What is it?Rilla: What?rilla: Dust.Rilla: Dust?rilla: Yeah. What is dust? You don’t see it unless there’s a shaft of sunlight coming through the window.Rilla: You do see it if you haven’t dusted in a

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-81764938223861887102007-05-31T09:59:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:42:53.298-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Where are you?rilla: Here.Rilla: You’re in bed? What’re you doing in bed?rilla: Reading.Rilla: Aren’t you supposed to be writing…? Isn’t that your job?rilla: Oh, reading’s part of the job too. Got to

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Memorial Day.Rilla: Brings back memories.rilla: Memories?Rilla: Yeah. Of all the people who have died in war.rilla: And are still dying.Rilla: You can’t remember them. Memory is about the past.rilla:

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: I’m so excited!Rilla: Now what’s got you chattering?rilla: S got promoted! How about that! I’m so proud.Rilla: Yup.rilla: Time to celebrate. Bring on the bubbly.Rilla: Yup.rilla: What’s the matter?

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-84492603448010593742007-05-22T10:34:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:44:02.554-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: To err is human.Rilla: Have I heard that before somewhere? Sounds familiar.rilla: Oh. It’s nothing. Just a play I’m reading.Rilla: Hmm. I have heard that.rilla: What?Rilla: That erring bit, that’s

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-48952522294342685732007-05-20T10:44:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:44:23.660-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: I have to confess, my writing’s been suffering a little lately.Rilla: Has it caught a virus?rilla: Shh!Rilla: What’s wrong?rilla: We’re on a computer…don’t use the ‘v’ word. No, my writing’s just a

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-39927065137734488612007-05-16T14:51:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:44:45.652-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: It was Art’s Day at Crafton College. You know, the place I take the acting classes.Rilla: Yeah? Did you participate, get involved, become part of the community yadda, yadda, yadda?rilla:

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Sha-Do: What’s she doing?Fog-Gi: I don’t know, she’s lying there on the bed, mumbling.Sha-Do: What’s she saying?Fog-Gi: Let me see…all…ranted…out…All ranted out!Sha-Do: She’s been doing that for a while.Fog-Gi: I know. What should we do? Should we wake her up?Sha-Do: What does it mean? All ranted out?Fog-Gi: No idea.Sha-Do: Why’s your tail flapping?Fog-Gi: My tail? That’s your tail.Sha-Do: My

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-63907277533770076092007-05-10T13:46:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:45:30.424-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: …Rilla: Hello?rilla: …Rilla: Hello, is anyone there?rilla: …Rilla: Hello..oh! hello…oh! Wake uh..up!rilla: Go away.Rilla: Huh?rilla: GO AWAY!Rilla: You… want me… to go away?rilla: That’s what I said,

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-27541081019908158832007-05-06T14:08:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:46:02.917-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionWritten after attending the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI Agent's Day at Newport Beach, CA on Saturday, May 5, 2007Conference Notes and LinksRilla: So, how was the cruise?rilla:

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NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: So, someone I know is approaching menopause, and…Rilla: That’s a bad word.rilla: What is?Rilla: Menopause.rilla: Just because you’re scared stiff of the idea doesn’t make it a bad word.Rilla: This

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-40162163084986279282007-05-02T23:19:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:47:19.701-08:00

So this is where she's been hanging out all this time!I guess I should introduce myself....I'm Sha-do. Yes, go figure, she had to spell my name funny...do you know how difficult that is to explain over the phone?Well, anyway, I'd been wondering where she'd disappeared to all these days. Now I see she's been consorting with the likes of you. I read all the other stuff on this site, the schizo bits

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-38937120015249121432007-05-01T17:03:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:47:53.869-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Went to a wine retreat on the South Coast.Rilla: Wine retreat? I didn’t know we could afford to indulge...rilla: No, no, a writer’s retreat at a winery and spa resort.Rilla: Wine makes the muse flow

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-24795290791536821952007-04-29T16:19:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:48:12.792-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- Introductionrilla: Peace does not work.Rilla: Huh?rilla: Shame on you if you are naïve enough to support peace.Rilla: What? I didn’t realize…rilla: No, no, it’s just something I’m writing.Rilla: That makes it better?

rilla jaggiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17259015787424108654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536610090761713095.post-53479883243553208492007-04-29T10:38:00.000-07:002010-01-03T16:48:32.866-08:00

NOTE: This blog is a continuing dialog between the two faces of rilla. The identity crisis is explained (if such a thing is possible) in the first edition. Click here to read: 1 -- IntroductionRilla: Just finished a book.rilla: Fantasy?Rilla: No.rilla: Oh, I only read fantasy …and the news.Rilla: They take all the women and make them into slaves on religious grounds.rilla: You mean

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Rilla: Hello! I am Rilla. Who are you?rilla: Hi! I’m rilla! Rilla: How odd! How many of us are there?rilla: Stick around and we might find out!Rilla: So, tell me something while I stick around. How did you go about getting the same name as I?rilla: Emm…maybe it’s something to do with being you?Rilla: Preposterous! I am unique. When they made me, they broke the mold…rilla: Ahem!Rilla: Quiet! I was

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