Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal article, Darkness Too Visible, sparked a discussion with a friend of mine. She’s a writer, too. Our discussion ended with us contemplating whether or not children’s books — or any book, really — would benefit …
SCBWI Recap #2: Courtney Bongiolatti Talks Boy MG Fiction
Given my current and future projects, I decided to attend Courtney Bongliolatti’s Boy MG Fiction 101 breakout session. Her key pieces of advice for writers of boy MG fiction were: Know your genre Write the character your kids want to …
Bleary-Eyed and Drooling
Did I really say I’d post more during the conference? Silly girl. As if. I thought I’d be able to post them when I got back to my room each night. But technically, I didn’t get back to my room …
Confession
I always swore that if I ever started a blog, my first post would be to confess my out-of-control book gluttony. As I type this, I’m sitting on my bed, staring at a bookshelf crammed with books. On the floor …