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Breaking News


I qualified for the National Age Group Championships in Portland, Oregon for 2008!
I am not planning to go, in lieu of LOTOJA, a 206 mile bike race from Logan, Utah
to Jackson Hole, Wyoming (lots of hills). This is the single longest bike race in the world!

Upcoming Event


I will be at Teen Reading Week at the Salt Lake Library October 14, from 7-9 p.m.


New on the website:

Teacher's Guides with Discussion Questions, Reader's Theaters, and Lessons in Revision, Dialog, and Description for Mira, Mirror and The Princess and the Hound.

On Writing

I have lots of advice for aspiring writers. Just click on the writing link above, or go to my blog.

One of the things I am currently working on is a list of 13 important elements in romance:

  • 1. First meeting--mirrored recognition
  • 2. Deep goodness in relationships with Others
  • 3. Witty repartee or deep conversation
  • 4.Unique need for each other (but not dependence)
  • 5. A mistake or series of mistakes
  • 6. An external obstacle (or more than one)
  • 7. Equality in development (not a one-sided change)
  • 8. Rejection of society, loneliness
  • 9. The moment of connection/vulnerability
  • 10. Sacrifice
  • 11. Reader love/longing
  • 12. Fixing mistakes
  • 13. Return to society

    • If you want to read more, go     here.

    Website Contest

    If you look through my website and can find the dragon I drew in Kindergarten, the photo of my mother at the beach, and me falling off a ball, email me and I will send a signed bookplate.


    Copyright Mette Ivie Harrison 2008 all rights reserved.
    Last revised August 25, 2008.