As of this month, according to a rough estimate, about 157 million people in the U.S use Facebook. Nearly 15 million Facebook users in the U.S. are thirteen to seventeen years old. Facebook is only one small corner of the social media available over the Internet. Communication between readers and writers, as witnessed by the [...]
I Gave Whirlabout New Media a Whirl
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/04/27/i-gave-whirlabout-new-media-a-whirl/
Bubble and Squeak!
I promised Lucy, who commented on the recent cookbook post, that I would tell you more about Bubble and Squeak. Just in case you want to know, none of the fictional characters in Blue Thread ate Bubble and Squeak except for Mrs. Jenkins when she was not cooking for the Josefsohn family. (I can’t speak [...]
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/02/08/bubble-and-squeak/
The Books Are In!
Abbey Gaterud, the interim publisher at Ooligan Press, interrupted my regularly scheduled life yesterday to announce: THE BOOKS ARE IN! When I arrived at Ooligan HQ, folks were in a total frenzy! OK, not really. Everyone was sort of sitting around, getting the business done. A large box labeled RUTH FELDMAN occupied one chair. The [...]
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/01/11/the-books-are-in/





My name is Ruth. I write books and articles for children and young adults. Blue Thread is my eleventh book, and the first one in which I have knowingly stretched the truth.