This is a recent review of my book, Punishing Ugly Children , in the St. John's Telegram (click on the image to zoom). The reviewer is very kind. As I said to Janine (the very helpful Janine, who puts out all the fires at my publisher's), it should make my mom happy, at least until she actually reads the book, and then she'll just be confused. While it's always weird to see your name in print, I don't get very excited about this kind of thing. Which of course drives C a little nuts. She would have this made into a t-shirt, or repeated in skywriting, or in fireworks. With Hawaiian dancers. But let me explain. Four months ago, just before I went off on parental leave, I made a big push to send out as much work as possible; in those last two weeks I submitted 29 stories to 28 different magazines (still leaving a pile of about 40 other stories sitting in their shoe box, dusty and wanting). I also submitted two things to contests, even though I am usually *loathe* to do