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Skating at Adult Nationals

April 23, 2010

Tags: skating, USFSA, Adult Nationals, competition, grandchildren, Peter Biver, Crossovers


After a frantic (and therefore sloppy) performance at the Midwestern Figure Skating Sectionals in Indy in March, my goals for Nationals were to stay calm, enjoy the moment and land all my jumps on one foot.

“Sell it!” said my coach Peter Biver. “Then maybe the judges won’t notice if a jump [or two] is slightly under rotated.”

In the dressing room (more…)

Thoughts on Skating and Writing

March 20, 2010

Tags: figure skating, Crossovers, Ladies Bronze, Adult Midwesterns, Adult Nationals, competition

Fifth out of eight. I was disappointed. I knew I had two-footed the landings of both my flip and loop jumps at Adult Midwesterns in Indianapolis last weekend. (Mercifully the camera failed to record the beginning of my program and that part was not preserved for posterity.) But fifth out of eight wasn’t (more…)

Not Ready for the Olympics

March 6, 2010

Tags: Olympics, figure skating, USFSA, MidWestern Sectional, Rachel Flatt, Marai Nagasu, Indiana/World Skating Academy, Indianapolis, Indiana, skating competition, Crossovers, book promotion, fathers


In idle moments my head still reverts to the Canadian National Anthem. “Oh, Canada, glorious and free!” We heard it so many times during the Olympics. Congratulations, BTW, to all my Canadian friends. We were pulling for you (most of the time…)

Maybe it was the next door setting, or the lure of the underdog hankering for the gold medals that had previously eluded them on home soil; maybe it was the death of the Georgian luger or America’s lack of medal prospects in some sports like ladies and pairs figure skating; but for whatever reason I sensed a more generous spirit in these Olympics. Commentators seemed to (more…)

Let's try again

February 12, 2010

Tags: Crossovers, my books


Some people seem to have had trouble with the order link on the Crossovers page. I'm working on that. In the meantime you can contact me at leanne@leannehardy.net to order your signed copy.

New Book Out!

February 4, 2010

Tags: Crossovers, skating, hockey, my books

I discovered this week that I have neglected to blog about my own book! Here I have written about other books I have read, encouraging you to read Robin Jones Gunn, Chimamanda Adiche and Stephen King, and not even suggested you click on my latest in the column on the right. I’m not sure if it is because of my tremendous humility or simply marketing incompetence. (Most likely it is a result of having talked about the book on Facebook until I was afraid of boring people into indifference.)

In this digital age cyberspace (more…)

Selected Works

Juvenile Fiction
Crossovers
Ben will be dead meat if the guys find out what he's doing at the ice rink in the early mornings.
Beads and Braids
Who will take care of Lindiwe when her sick mother passes?
Between Two Worlds
It’s never fun to be different, and Brazilian–born Cristina Larson feels very different.
The Wooden Ox
Despite the war, Keri’s parents wouldn’t let anything really bad happen to her... would they?
Fiction
Glastonbury Tor
A tale of the Holy Grail and the tumultuous England of King Henry VIII
Picture Book
So That’s What God is Like
God is like many things in a small African boy’s world—the wind, a rock, even his mother.

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