Animal, mineral, vegetable? My family loves to play Twenty Questions. We always start with these three categories to narrow the…
Author-interviews are especially fun when a good friend has a debut coming out! Congrats to Robin Farmer on this month’s…
After reading Adam P. Schmitt’s debut middle grade novel Speechless, I was… speechless. No, really. I was. Seriously. Toward the…
This month I read a YA novel that defies literary convention. It’s a mystery, but not a mystery. There’s a…
In this post by author Kathy Steffen, she talks about “giving your characters accountability.” I thought that was an odd…
Once when I was young and read a novel with a fabulous twist at the end (I’ve forgotten the book,…
This month, I caught up with Ruta Sepetys, recently home from a two-month book tour for her latest…
When I was a student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I heard Jane Kurtz, the…
For months I’ve been trying to find the right opening for the novel I started in 2013, and I think…
If you read only one book this summer, make it Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County. Part memoir,…