Letting Go to Write More
I did a tough thing a few weeks ago. I hired a dog walker for Zoe and Zephyr, my two whippets. It hadn’t been something I was planning on doing. We were tight, the Zs and I. We spent our…
YA Wednesday: YA Book Vloggers, YA Trends, Harry Potter Spinoffs, Urban Fiction, and YA Around the World
The recent tragic events in Brussels make the joy I experienced this past weekend at the NYC Teen Author Festival feel like ancient history. But it isn’t. The wonder and hope I felt in the company of so many readers…
The Virtual Afterlife of Words: Confessions of a 21st Century Writer
I confess. I don’t kill my darlings. I bury them alive. All those loved and discarded words. Full paragraphs and partial lines, whole pages and single, unwanted words. I gather them up, and I deposit them into a document that…
Friday Feast: Why Rejection Feels Personal, Shitty Job = Better Writer, Things You Should Worry about While Writing a Novel, Writing Historical Novels Set in Eras You Know Nothing About, and Irish Writers on How Their Irish Heritage Influenced Them
Let’s kick off the weekend by reading a little bit about the sting of writerly rejection. Then, we’ll slide into how your shitty day job is at least making you a better writer (yay). We’ll get anxious with another writer and…
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…
YA Wednesday: YA Set in Ireland, YA for Women’s History Month, Books I Wish I’d Read as an LGBTQ Teenager, Letter to a Young Reader, Families We’d Love to Join
This winter I’ve been reading about serial killers, Arctic explorers pulling themselves up from deep ice crevasses only to die of starvation, and artists and lawyers wallowing in misery while living in million dollar apartments.