In October I heard two excellent keynoters—Marita Golden at the James River Writers Conference in Richmond, and Laurie Halse Anderson…
Last month when friend, colleague, fellow Richmonder and partner in literary dreams Meg Medina won the Newbery Medal for her…
Whether you measure progress in daily word counts or butt-in-chair hours, writing a first draft means letting characters surprise you.
Mary Lou Hall‘s debut novel Wirewalker came out in September 2016, introducing YA readers to 14 year-old Clarence Feather, a…
How’s this for serendipity? When I met conference keynoter Padma Venkatraman at the James River Writers conference in October 2016,…
This month I attended two writers’ conferences—James River Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Regional—and…
This week’s Writing Show, “Editing for Emotional Impact,” presented by James River Writers, was like a cornucopia of craft tips,…
I recently read and commented on a number of submissions for Hunger Mountain, Vermont College of Fine Arts’ journal for…
Today’s post is for every fiction writer with a manuscript (like mine) that isn’t quite working. I’ve hit the two-year…
Author-illustrator Cece Bell is coming to the James River Writers conference in Richmond, VA, on October 18-19, and how lucky am…