Betsy Franco
Children's Book Author

Children's Theater of Palo Alto asked me to write a play of my novel Metamorphosis. It's a challenge but a lot of fun to change the form and include all the crazy elements of the book. Which brings up my latest concern. Common sense media is posting very narrow reviews on Barnes and Noble. (more…)

Amy Krouse Rosenthal's blog and Youtube from Chicago were really cute and made me feel good. Thought I'd pass them along.
http://blogs.vocalo.org/author/amykr

Tom and I are going to do some more events with an open mic so that teens can read their own poetry. We'll be promoting Metamorphosis, Junior Year, at the events as well. Some poets at our Hicklebee's Books event said the only places they can read are at adult poetry readings. I'll keepyou (more…)

The Kepler's event was standing room only, which was thrilling for me and Tom. Many teens from all over the area and many adults were in the audience. Thank you to everyone who came.

We showed Tom's drawings on a powerpoint and spoke about our creative processes and our collaboration. I had baby photos (more…)

Hey, I'm filming a scene from my latest novel. It's exciting. A friend of mine is in a film class and we've cast two really good actors from Palo Alto High School.

I took a screenwriting class at Stanford that was excellent. The teacher was Adam Tobin. During the class, I wrote a screenplay adaptation of my novel, and now I've reworked a five minute segment for filming. Should be fun.