“The first part of a book for me is hearing the character’s voice in my head. I don’t even take out a pen until I hear it strongly and consistently.”
Steve Watkins’s novel SINK OR SWIM takes readers to North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island one summer during World War II.
This month I visited Alaska’s Denali National Park—not in person, but in prose—when I read Hannah Moderow‘s debut novel Lily’s…
This month I read a YA novel that defies literary convention. It’s a mystery, but not a mystery. There’s a…
What a wonderful new book for middle grade readers! Leah Henderson’s debut novel One Shadow on the Wall took me…
Mary Lou Hall‘s debut novel Wirewalker came out in September 2016, introducing YA readers to 14 year-old Clarence Feather, a…
Today I want to sing the praises of Richmond, Virginia’s writing community! I’m fortunate to be surrounded by poets, novelists,…
This month, after devouring Dean Gloster‘s debut YA novel Dessert First, I just had to track down the author and…
I don’t remember exactly when I met Erin Teagan, but I know it was through SCBWI‘s Mid-Atlantic chapter—either the annual fall…
How’s this for serendipity? When I met conference keynoter Padma Venkatraman at the James River Writers conference in October 2016,…