Why Adults Should Read YA
I was sitting on a crowded beach the other day, when I overheard a 50-something guy say, “Did you know The Way Way Back was filmed in Onset?” The man on the towel next to him replied, “I liked that…
Category: Genre
Happy Indie Story, Part Three: Smells Like Team Spirit
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about teams. This is partly because Lorde’s song “Team” has been on repeat in my head. But it’s also because I was recently asked why I chose to work with an editor before sending…
An Interview with Kimberly Elkins, Author of What Is Visible
Kimberly Elkins’s debut novel “What Is Visible” centers on the real-life story of Laura Bridgman, who spent most of her life in 19th Century Boston without the use of four out of five senses, and whose education at Perkins Institution…
Happy Indie Story, Part One:
The Road to Publishing A Boy Like Me
(In this new monthly series for Dead Darlings, I’ll document the step-by-step process of publishing A Boy Like Me. Here in part one, I discuss why I chose to go with an independent publisher for this novel.) As 2013 drew…
Not Just a Joke
Like virtually every novelist, I am happy to complain about the difficulties besetting me with regard to my *~Unpublished Masterpiece~* of a novel. I am confused by whether agents consider it young adult and grumpy about their desire to change…
Winnie the Pooh Got Me Into Fiction
Ask what got me into fiction in the first place and I’ll tell you in four words. The World of Pooh by A.A. Milne. No other book comes close. My mother read that volume to me a hundred times when…