YA Wednesday: Spring Round-Up
It’s finally starting to look like spring here in New England – the tulips are popping, the buds on the trees are exploding, the grass is turning a neon shade of green. Summer is right around the corner! In celebration…
Category: Books
Friday Feast: Prince, Pulitzer Prize Winners Viet Thanh Nguyen and Lin-Manuel Miranda, Slackers, Readers vs. Writers, and South Park Creators on Plot
What does Prince have to do with writing? Everything if you’re a kid growing up in a dead-end town in a state that everyone forgets exists and everything around you is the worst and your stupid stepbrother told your parents…
Friday Feast: Book Sales and Fails, the “Hollowness” of Diversity, When Agents and Editors Don’t Identify with Characters, and the Seven Deadly Sins of Public Readings
I’m back from a whirlwind trip to Buffalo for Dyngus Day, a post-Lenten holiday that involves pussy willows and polka. But really, it’s about drinking and eating lots of pierogies and kielbasa. Much as I enjoy spending all my free time with…
Friday Feast: Race, Research, and High-Stakes Choices of Debut Novelists; How to Tell People What Your Book is About; Character Desire; Rewrite Caves; and 7 Steps to a Happy Revision
We kick off this week’s links with a fantastic discussion between two debut authors. I always love it when writers interview other writers because of the “me too!” moments that occur, such as the struggle to find the right POV…
Library Apocalypse!
By Guest Contributor Camille DeAngelis. This post first appeared on www.macmillanlibrary.com and is reposted with the author’s permission. Calm down, friends—it’s not the end of libraries! BONES & ALL author Camille DeAngelis wrote the following piece about the future of libraries after being inspired by…
Friday Feast: Just Say No, On Poverty in Literature, the Writing Lessons of Hamilton, Risky Writing, and Why We Don’t Italicize Spanish
This week, we learn why creatives who say no are the most productive. (So hard to do in reality.) We also dig in to the representations of poverty in literature, the writing lessons of Hamilton, and one author’s perspective on…