by editor | Jan 5, 2018 | Articles, Writer to Writer: Guest Contributors
By Matt Harry, author of Sorcery for Beginners Bullying plays a key part in my debut novel Sorcery for Beginners. The main character, Owen Macready, is 13-years-old and the new kid at his school in Henderson, Nevada. He just wants to keep his head down, but one day,...
by editor | Nov 6, 2017 | Articles, Writer to Writer: Guest Contributors
By Heather Cumiskey, author of I Like You Like This It’s easy to want to abandon your book or short story just as it’s getting hard. Like when your momentum suddenly stalls, characters get quiet, or that pestering voice in your head tells you that your writing...
by editor | Oct 17, 2017 | Articles, Writer to Writer: Guest Contributors
By Amy S. Foster We’ve all heard the stories about why some kids are bullies. They feel bad about themselves, they suffer from poor self esteem, they want others to feel as bad as they do, their home life is troubled…Adults can look at these factors and explain, quite...
by editor | Oct 8, 2017 | A Bookish Blog, Articles
By Alane Adams One of the toughest audiences to attract to a new book are boys between the ages of 11 and 15. When I wrote the Legends of Orkney for my own pre-teen son, my goal was to actively attract and draw that audience into the reading experience. I knew...
by editor | Sep 14, 2017 | Articles, Writer to Writer: Guest Contributors
By Dori Jones Yang Confession: I am not a Chinese boy living in 1870s Connecticut. I was not alive in the 1870s. I have never lived in Connecticut. I am not a boy. And I am not Chinese. Whew! Got that off my chest. We writers of historical fiction are called to...
by editor | Aug 24, 2017 | A Bookish Blog
It’s August, and that means that summer is nearly over, and kids are starting their back-to-school shopping. But, along with new clothes, backpacks, and perhaps a spiffy new lunchbox, we thought it would be good to remind kids what it means to be good citizens,...
