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This week in self-obsession

The other day I conducted something I do far less often than you might think: a lengthy web search of my own name. I’m glad I did because it turned up two great things I didn’t know about:

  • A excerpt from Break On Through on the truly excellent break culture blog, Celebreak. They thought it looked promising, which I appreciate because let’s face it, actual b-boys and b-girls should be the toughest audience for this book. I can’t overstate how important it was to me that I get the culture and the dancing right.
  • Lina Gordaneer reviewed Break On Through on the Hip Librarians Book Blog. She thought Nadine could use a “quick bop on the head,” which I can’t say I disagree with. She also called the book “compulsively readable,” which is always nice to hear because to me (and I think to a lot of writers), writing generally means spending 3 or more hours a day convinced that I’m going to be outed as boring immediately upon publication.

Previously on JillMurray.com

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    I’m interviewed today by my neighborhood pal Alan Silberberg. Alan is a middle-grade author, cartoonist, and TV writer whose latest book, MILO is coming out later this summer. I’m really looking forward to reading it. He interviewed me about everything from food to writing… and then things got a little personal. ALAN: Did you have [...]

  • Rhythm and Blues on YA Book Shelf

    I’ve had the great pleasure of seeing Rhythm and Blues all over YA Book Shelf this week. Melissa is making tons of noise about YA on her blog, and the enthusiasm is infectious. If you love reading and YA, you should definitely check it out, and I’m not just saying that because of this glowing [...]

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    Rhythm and Blues protagonist and spotlight hog Alya has done it again. She’s interviewed another author for you, for the Y-Eh! blog tour. Alya’s subject is Nelsa Roberto, author of YA novel ILLEGALLY BLONDE– the story of Lucy do Amaral, the determined and adventurous daughter of strict Portuguese parents, who is torn between two worlds [...]

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