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: Genre
YA Wednesday: YA in Verse, Prescribing YA for Mental Health, and YA Inspired Prom Themes and Dresses
April is the cruelest month. It’s also National Poetry Month, flu season, and prom season. I actually boycotted my senior prom. At the time I thought of it as a statement (no bourgeois corsage and prom dress for me!), but…
Dig Deeper and You Might Find What You’re Looking For
At this year’s Muse and The Marketplace I will be peddling (presenting? offering? begging acceptance for?) my YA historical novel, Big Shot. This will be my second time at Muse with this novel, though its first as a Young Adult…
Charles Baxter’s Captain Happen in Middle Grade and YA Fiction
Meet Captain Happen—troublemaker, narrative enabler, change agent. The novelist, essayist, and poet, Charles Baxter talks about Captain Happen as one of several ways to increase urgency and momentum in fiction. Male or female, this kind of character shakes things up….
YA Wednesday: Creepy Sleeping Beauty, Fairytales with Fierce Females, Irrational Fears from Books, YA Magical Realism, @PaperbackParadise
Today for YA Wednesday I’ve gathered some scary story links. I don’t scare as easily as I used to, but I still remember how frightened I was by the first ghost story I read. It had something to do with…
How Real Crimes Influenced My Fiction
This post first appeared on Jungle Red Writers in September 2015. I’m from a small town. East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Population: almost 11,000 when I last lived there. That was 1993, the year I graduated high school. A half-year earlier Kent…