I’m so glad to have had the opportunity to interview Meg Medina, author of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your…
Last month, a friend entrusted me with the privilege of skimming and commenting on her draft of a novel. Her…
I’m scared right now. Scared that I won’t be able to write another novel, or at least, not one worth…
During one of JRW’s twitter-chats (#jrwc12) with upcoming conference speakers, we were posing questions for Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of Fingerprints…
My agent nixed the novel I finished drafting earlier this year, and it’s taken me a couple of months to…
Here is yesterday’s fabulous post from io9.com: The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar, written by storyboard artist Emma…
When lots of characters are introduced at the start of a novel, I can’t keep them straight. No matter how…
At the mid-Atlantic SCBWI conference last month, keynoter Han Nolan said, “When a story scares me so much that I…
This past Saturday while speaking on a panel at the James River Writers Conference, I choked up and found myself…
For a few years, I’ve had the privilege of serving as a primary-level reader/judge for James River Writers’ Best Unpublished…