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Category: Writing Fiction
Writing fiction for adults, teens and kids. Topics include the building blocks of plot, character and setting. Next, tips on drafting, revision and editing. Also includes in-depth looks at verse novels, mysteries, and contemporary fiction.
As I look toward the end of April, my stomach starts to clench. I realize that the school year will soon be over and my big plan to finish this manuscript draft befor esummer break has
As a verse novelist, I take special delight in the Academy of American Poets’ annual spring celebration of this very special literary art. If you want to discover ways to brighten your day with poetry, do
I don’t check my author email enough. Due to my techno-incompetence, I’ve got it set up in such a way that there are several steps to reviewing new correspondence. But I try. And once in awhile–sometimes
Here are two very different takes on teen assassins from two amazing writers. Before creating his dark protagonist, BOY NOBODY for the Unknown Assassin series, Allen Zadoff crafted heartbreaking and humorous novels about theater geeks, overweight kids,
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Woodinville Library, 17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville, WA The next class in this FREE writing workshop series will be taught by the ever-charming, ever-crafty and incredibly talented Holly Cupala Here’s what she’ll
Who is lost? Can they be found? Who can find them? Do yourself the kindness of reading about Mads, Billy, their search for a path to life beyond family pain and grief, and the compass revealed inside
As part of the fantastic Seattle Writes Program, I’ll be teaching a FREE CLASS entitled Find an Agent and Submit Your Work: The Art of the Query and the Synopsis at Seattle Public Library’s West Seattle Branch.
I am so excited to read the final book in Romily Bernard’s thrilling Find Me trilogy! If you fancy fabulous YA novels with puzzle-istic covers, here are a few more to try:
Today, I have read the usual flurry of “you don’t understand me” Tweets by people of diverse faiths, races, dis/abilities. In the publishing cyberverse are the usual posts about how too many cis white women are