Summer Blog Series: Gary D. Schmidt
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.
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.
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.
Mitali Perkins shares her favorite book on writing, one of her books to read aloud, and her writing space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Short stories, I find, are hard to write, but both fascinating to work on, and when successful, enormously satisfying.
One of the standard forms of communication between a writer and publisher is the editorial letter. It works this way:
In which I marvel at the number of times Phans have attended The Phantom of the Opera and re-read books such as Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Let’s compile a list of books worth re-reading.