Steve Cross's Page

I've been busy so I haven't written anything in here for ages. Not much news to tell. This past summer I wrote questions for the ACT test. It was interesting. I was given a passage, and I had to write 30 writing/grammar questions about the passage. It pays extremely well. I figured out that with the time I took I made about 60 dollars an hour. I'm not saying it was easy -- au contraire. (sp?) It was very challenging, but being an English teacher helped. The ACT people seem to be happy with my wo… Continue

The assistant editor at Aladdin has 48 pages of my manuscript that she is reading. I hope she calls me up and says, "Let's do a ten book series." I don't think that's too much to ask, is it?

Also, I recently finished a play designed for high school drama departments. It's called "If These Walls Could Talk about our School". It's different, a bit weird, and hopefully, more than typical high school fare. I have attempted to make the play flexible enough that any school could do it while at the sa… Continue

I am entering the world of blogging in a big way. Here's my blog place. It probably looks like garbage, but I hope to get better as I go along.

www.stevecrosswords.blogspot.com

Thanks, Dana for taking up for me. Let me assure you, however, that people who took offense at my comment about the conference, especially one in particular, don't really bother me. I was only reporting what I heard.

I would like to mention that the television person at the conference wrote for Monk, one of the most popular shows on USA network. He has also written many novels with Monk as the main character, so he is not involved with one of those short-termed television shows. He has written… Continue

Spring. It revitalizes me and makes me see the possibilities for new beginnings. I went to a conference last week and met with an assistant editor from Aladdin Books, Simon and Schuster. She took my stuff with her. I'll keep you all posted. I'm writing on three projects right now. The one I pitched to her was Tongue Tied. Imagine a world where stories are outlawed. Tonguestin Towers officials arrest people who waste time telling stories. In Hinterlu, imagination and magic are the only things tha… Continue