Connie Harrison

Connie Harrison's day job is working as a school librarian. She maintains a blog of her experiences and lesson plans at Madame Pince and the School Library. She is on staff in the School of Library and Information Science department at Wayne State University, where she teaches children's literature online and in traditional classes. Her Amazon.com Reseller business helps to support her book habit. Connie lives in a Detroit suburb with her husband, Jeff, and her dog, Bob.

Marketing Books to Boys

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One of the members of a children’s literature listserv send a query to the group.  She explained that she was writing historical fiction and that the setting of her book was the South during the Great Depression.  One of her characters was a teenage boy who was poor, athletic and used reading as his escape. … Read more

The Joy of Cookbooks

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I’m into porn. Cookbook porn. It’s a terrible habit. I have the basics: Betty, Julia, Fanny. I have the stuff that’s a little off: Nigella, Bobby, even a Canadian named Laura. Then there are the extremes: Silver Palate, Babycakes, Death By Chocolate. It’s a guilty pleasure. I savor each cookbook as it arrives in the … Read more