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Next Letter for Kids: Kristin Tubb
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Kristin Tubb! Kristin writes about her love of comets, planets, and stars. She also explains the 12- and 13-sign horoscopes. Don’t miss out on this awesome letter—subscribe today! For more information on Letters for Kids, click…
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Exclusive Book Trailer Release and Giveaway
We’re excited to premiere the book trailer for for Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut novel, Juventud, out October 31st from Curbside Splendor! To celebrate the book’s release, Curbside Splendor is giving away five copies of Juventud to the first five people to share this post on…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Matthew Salesses
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Matthew Salesses! Matthew writes to us about equality, possibilities, and missing Linsanity. And we’re offering a special Let’s Get Cozy promotion—purchase or extend a yearly LITM subscription anytime…
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Next Letter for Kids: A. B. Westrick
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from A. B. Westrick, author of Brotherhood! Anne writes to us about one of her special kitties, Pokey, who lived to be twenty years old. Plus, she teaches us how to draw a picture…
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Let’s Get Cozy: A Letters in the Mail Special Promotion
The cool weather is approaching and The Rumpus wants to help you curl up with a good book! Purchase a yearly Letters in the Mail subscription anytime during the month of September, and you’ll receive an autographed copy of Matthew Salesses’s The Hundred-Year Flood, just released 9/1 from Little A/Amazon Publishing! You’ll…
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Letters for Kids Book Giveaway and Letter-Writing Contest
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a copy of Operation Pucker Up, signed by the author Rachele Alpine! (Rachele also writes our next letter.) To enter, leave a comment on this post by September 7th telling us the best thing about this…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Martha Bayne
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from our own Sunday Editor Martha Bayne! Martha writes us a moving and wide-ranging letter about Greece, Lake Michigan, San Juan, Detroit, California, and her father’s failing…
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Next Letter for Kids: Rachele Alpine
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Rachele Alpine, author of Operation Pucker Up! Rachele writes us a very colorfully illustrated letter about “accidental mischief”. She gives lots of funny examples of her own accidental mischief and can’t wait for you to…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Chad Prevost
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Chad Prevost! Chad writes to us about the history, both interesting and creepy, of his home and the land he lives on. Don’t miss out! Subscribe to Letters in the…
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Next Letter for Kids: Erin Fry
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Erin Fry! Erin writes to us about her love of hiking and because she gets lost a lot, her love of maps. Don’t miss out on this awesome letter—subscribe today! For more information on…
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Requests, Anyone?
Tomorrow Rumpus columnist Allyson McCabe will begin hosting “FM Mutations,” a new radio show on Bridgeport, CT station 89.5 FM WPKN (and online at WPKN.org). Every 5th Wednesday of the month from noon till 1 p.m. Allyson will spin rock, punk, and indie gems—mostly demos, covers,…
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Letters for Kids Signed Book Giveaway
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a hardcover edition of Mom, There’s a Dinosaur in Beeson’s Lake from the Secrets of a Lab Rat series, signed by illustrator Jim Paillot! (Jim also writes our next letter.) In the book, Scab has…