This month, I caught up with Ruta Sepetys, recently home from a two-month book tour for her latest…
Last week, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley won the Newbery Honor Award for her middle grade novel, The War that Saved my Life, and just this…
I’m big on beginning novels in media res (in the middle of things), meaning jumping into a scene…
If you read only one book this summer, make it Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County. Part memoir,…
What a joy to feature Wendy Wan-Long Shang on my blog today! Wendy is the author of the award-winning novel…
I met Winifred Conkling in 2009 when we were students in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts,…
When James River Writers (JRW) invited me to interview some 2014 conference speakers, I looked over the impressive list of who’s coming…
Author-illustrator Cece Bell is coming to the James River Writers conference in Richmond, VA, on October 18-19, and how lucky am…
Listen to these lines from the first page of Caminar, Skila Brown’s debut novel in verse: Our village sat in…
This month I read two awesome mysteries, Mary Miley’s The Impersonator, and Kristen Kittscher’s The Wig in the Window, and…