Summer Blog Series: Jerdine Nolen
July 4, 2023
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Jerdine Nolen shares her favorite book on writing, her books that are most often read aloud, and her unusually clean desk.
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Summer Blog Series: Pamela S. Turner
June 27, 2023
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About her favorite book to read aloud, Pam says there’s a statement on the back cover, “Very few people in this story die of natural causes.” Her favorite book about writing? Her own writing space?
Summer Blog Series: Gary D. Schmidt
June 20, 2023
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In which Gary D. Schmidt shares two of his favorite books on writing, a book to read aloud, as well as his two writing spaces.
Summer Blog Series: Torrey Maldonado
June 13, 2023
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As a boy, I didn’t hate books, but, like those around me, we felt books hated us since we did not see us in the written word. If we were in books, we weren’t main characters, complex, amazing, and worthy of respect.
Summer Blog Series: Mitali Perkins
June 6, 2023
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Mitali Perkins shares her favorite book on writing, one of her books to read aloud, and her writing space.
Summer Blog Series: Avi
May 30, 2023
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In which I answer the three questions I’ve sent on to 13 admired middle grade authors for my Summer Blog Series. Stay tuned each Tuesday for suggestions from a new author.
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
May 23, 2023
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Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published serially under the title, The Sea Cook, has enormously impacted me since I first read it as an adolescent.
Words, words, words
May 16, 2023
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Shakespeare was an extraordinary inventor of new words, words that entered the mainstream of our vocabulary so that we use them today as a matter of course.
Series and Sequels
May 8, 2023
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It’s not unusual for me to get a note from a reader asking me to extend the life—if you will—of a character in one of my novels or stories with a new tale.
Story Behind the Story: What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?
May 2, 2023
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Short stories, I find, are hard to write, but both fascinating to work on, and when successful, enormously satisfying.