By providing our children with great literature we can nurture the readers, writers, and thinkers of the future. Although writing for kids is a lot of fun, it should not be taken lightly. They demand entertainment, and we must provide it, but they also deserve real art — literature that is deep, fresh, beautiful, and challenging.
~ Molly Beth Griffin

Register NOW for Winter/Spring classes!

November 23, 2012

I’m teaching a NEW 8-week Young Adult Novel class at the Loft starting in February, and repeating my popular single-session “You Can Write A Picture Book!” class in the spring.  And did you know that I also run an independent distance learning class called The Lyrical Picture Book continually based on interest?  Check out my [...]

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Final bookstore reading in the Twin Cities approaches!

October 20, 2012

THANK YOU to everyone who has made my Silhouette of a Sparrow events wildly successful these last two months.  The book is well and fully launched!  However, if you’ve missed out on these readings, you have one more chance:  I’ll be at Magers & Quinn Bookshop in Mpls on Wednesday, October 24th at 7:30 p.m., [...]

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LOON BABY Storytime at the Twin Cities Book Festival!

October 10, 2012

Join me at the Children’s Pavilion at the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday, October 13th, at 10:30 a.m. for a Loon Baby storytime event.  We’ll read together, loon-dance together, and do a book-making craft.  Geared toward kids ages 3-6. I’ll also be introducing authors at the Loft’s YA panel at 12:30. It’s [...]

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Lambda Literary Foundation encourages readers to “take flight with Garnet.”

October 2, 2012

An organization “celebrating excellence in LGBT literature since 1989,” shared a glowing review of my debut novel with its readership today: “Silhouette of a Sparrow is an excellent example of an historical coming-of-age lesbian young adult novel. Written with a deft hand, based in the true history of its setting, and with characterizations that will ring [...]

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Bookstore Appearances!

September 24, 2012

I will be reading and signing Silhouette of a Sparrow at the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul on Friday, September 28th at 6:30 p.m.  There will be cake, and silhouette cutting, and jazz, and possibly a little Charleston lesson! Then, on Saturday, September 29th at 1:00 p.m. I’ll be at Wild Rumpus Books, reading [...]

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