A Boy Like Me Revisited
I wrote and revised A Boy Like Me during the first year of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. Two years later, on September 4, 2014, the book was published by 215 Ink. During the summer of 2024, Mike Perkins approached…
Category: Writing Advice
Kris Jansma Reveals How “Genius” Authors are Just Like Us in his New Book–Revisionaries
Feeling defeated by rejections from agents and/or editors? Feeling stuck with your writing, wondering if you’re just not good enough? You need to pick up a copy of Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain…
Des Hall on the Darker Side of Jamaica, Story Structure, and his Second YA Novel, Better Must Come
Desmond Hall’s second novel, Better Must Come, is a gritty, action-packed, YA thriller that reveals the darker side of sunny Jamaica and how a tragedy and missing drug money entangle the lives of two teens who desperately want to change…
Meet Kasey LeBlanc, Author of Flyboy
“No one knows where the Midnight Circus comes from—when it began or how…It comes for those who need it.” So opens Kasey LeBlanc’s debut novel, Flyboy, beckoning those who need a magical refuge as much as does the novel’s fierce…
Christine Ma-Kellams Talks K-pop, Footnotes, and her Debut Novel, The Band
First off, a confession: I am a K-pop stan. I listen to it every day, BTS in particular. I’ve actually seen the septet perform in person seven times. So, as a BTS ARMY (the name of the group’s massive fandom)…
In Search of the Holy Jolt with Author Steve Almond
Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of taking a class with Steve Almond, read his novel All the Secrets in the World, or gobbled up Dear Sugars for that matter, knows that Almond practices what he describes as radical empathy….