Linda Oatman High has written more than twenty books for young readers, and here is her latest. Don’t you just…
Writers have to merge what they don’t know (what they imagine) with what they do know (tastes, textures, smells, sounds, images).
Over this past summer, friends gave me these comments on the draft of a new YA novel: “I’m confused here. Are the…
I’m big on beginning novels in media res (in the middle of things), meaning jumping into a scene…
After attending an excellent James River Writers panel discussion (“The Writing Show”) and Master Class in April with authors John…
When I was a kid, I wrote letters. Real letters. By hand. Sometimes chain letters. Who has time for that…
I was thrilled when James River Writers (JRW) asked me to interview Kathryn Erskine in advance of the JRW conference…
How and where is it best to enter into a particular story—which moment, which sounds and which smells should a…
This past Saturday while speaking on a panel at the James River Writers Conference, I choked up and found myself…