Can I tell you how honored I was when Cynthia Leitich-Smith asked if she could interview me for her blog? If you haven't been to Cyn's website, you can't truly call yourself well-versed in children's lit. Her site is THE site, if you know what I mean. Anyway, Cyn's been maintaining two blogs this year and this one, Cynsations, is all about discussing books and authors and technique. SUCH a great resource - just like her original web page.

Back to clearing out the e-mail. There are now well over 173 messages to go through. How does this happen? HOW?