What an intense book for older-middle grade readers (and adults)! And how prescient of national happenings. The Inside Battle by…
Linda Oatman High has written more than twenty books for young readers, and here is her latest. Don’t you just…
Is passion just an obsession with something you can’t seem to get better at, or is it the very thing…
“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.”
This month, after devouring Dean Gloster‘s debut YA novel Dessert First, I just had to track down the author and…
The other day while reading Raymie Nightengale by Kate DiCamillo, I hit a passage that from a craft…
In a July 2016 article in Toronto’s Metro News, writer Richard Crouse recounts a joke told by world-class cellist Yo-Yo…
When I was a student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I heard Jane Kurtz, the…
I met Winifred Conkling in 2009 when we were students in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts,…
The worst part of the writing process is the blank screen, the white paper, the emptiness, the limitless possibilities. The best…