The amazing Jane Yolen has just had her 300th book published!  What impresses me most about that is what a high quality level she has maintained.  I have her latest, Elsie’s Bird on my too-read pile right now and am really looking forward to it.

Huffington Post has a piece by Yolen about the books she has written, whether she remembers writing them all, and the key to her writing:

The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing and I do it with joy. How any writer gets through that amount of words without passion and joy, I simply don’t know. Isaac Asimov once said, "If the doctor told me I only had six more minutes to live, I’d type faster." I understand that feeling, here, resonating under the breastbone.

Here’s to another hundred!