http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Laura+Preble Writing Laura Preble Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=199684&ca=Writing (And How To Keep Them From Fouling Up Your YA Fiction) In 10 years, will anybody understand you if you say "fo shizzle?" Will they stare blankly if you mention Britney Spears' buzz cut or Paris Hilton's jail time? They might, they might not, but the point is this: If you're a writer of young adult f... Writing Laura Preble Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=205106&ca=Writing Ms. Preble is an award-winning teacher, a jazz singer and pianist, and the author of The Queen Geek Social Club and its just-published sequel Queen Geeks In Love (both available from Penguin Books). A self-admitted geek, Laura is a science fiction fan and currently lives in the San Diego area with h... Society Laura Preble Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=201592&ca=Society When the computers at a school in Lake Oswego, Oregon, had to be turned off for four days because of a virus, students were bewildered about how to address a snail mail envelope. These tech-savvy students could email, text, web browse, MySpace, and Google with great skill, but when the system went d... Writing Laura Preble Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=198073&ca=Writing One day when I had nothing to do (well, actually, I had a lot to do, but I didn't want to do any of it), I decided to play the Google game. This is the one where you input your own name or something else into the field in quotes to see how many search results you get. Because my most recent book, Qu...