In October I heard two excellent keynoters—Marita Golden at the James River Writers Conference in Richmond, and Laurie Halse Anderson…
Tapping into your own truth helps you write fully human, complex, and authentic characters.
What a wonderful new book for middle grade readers! Leah Henderson’s debut novel One Shadow on the Wall took me…
This month I attended two writers’ conferences—James River Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Regional—and…
What a joy to feature Wendy Wan-Long Shang on my blog today! Wendy is the author of the award-winning novel…
“Restless Leg Syndrome? Oh, that’s an electrolyte imbalance,” said a doctor-friend. “Just drink Gatorade.” I shrugged. Couldn’t hurt. So I…
My debut novel will be released in 2013, so I applied for the SCBWI Book Launch Award—some extra funds to…
At the mid-Atlantic SCBWI conference last month, keynoter Han Nolan said, “When a story scares me so much that I…