About Lynne Jonell
Lynne Jonell is the author (and occasional illustrator) of seventeen books for children, all with an element of fantasy. Her first novel, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, won the Minnesota Book Award; her latest book, Time Sight, is a historical time-travel set at Castle Menzies in Scotland, the castle of her grandfather’s clan. Her books have received starred reviews in The Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, and have been published in nine languages. She lives in Plymouth, Minnesota, with her husband. For more information please visit
her website.
Uh-oh, indeed, Lynne! Although if this is an example of what you can pull off even with injuries, you’re golden! May you have the speediest of recoveries! Meanwhile, just a fun side note: when guiding students during school visits through long writing sessions, I often encourage them to take a break (not as literally as you did, of course) by trying to write with their non-dominant hand. I’ve been told it can wake up our creative brain, and it’s a fun trick for rejuvenating our enthusiasm if nothing else. Hopefully it will work that way for you, too!
Thanks for the good words, Lisa. Let’s hope your creativity trick works with my brain!