We’re sandwiched between Thanksgiving and “The End”…what a great time to take a minute to reflect. What have we learned about ourselves and our process throughout NaNo? For what are we grateful? How might we redefine “success”?

Linda Urban writes picture books, chapter books, and middle grade novels about the small things that matter to kids in a big way. Her works include A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Hound Dog True, The Center of Everything, Weekends with Max and his Dad, Mouse Was Mad, Little Red Henry, and most recently, Almost There and Almost Not. Her books have appeared on more than 25 state reading lists, as well as best books lists from The New York Public Library, Kirkus, the National Council of Teachers of English, and IndieNext. Linda has a BA in Journalism and an MA in English from Wayne State University in Detroit and pursued further graduate study in Film and Television Critical Studies at UCLA. For ten years, she served as marketing director at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, California.