by Site Owner | Dec 19, 2011 | Writers on Writing
Writing Tips From A Pro By Reed Farrel Coleman, Author of Hurt Machine For the past five years, I’ve taught a summer class in writing—How To Write Genre Fiction or How To Write A Novel—at Hofstra University on Long Island. It’s a three credit class open to...
by Site Owner | Nov 27, 2011 | Writers on Writing
If I’m So Damned Smart, Then Why Am I Broke? By Joe Schwartz I sometimes feel sorry for the likes of Stephenie Myers and J.K. Rowling. After the smash success of what are basically their first novels, where do they have to go from here? Even if their next book...
by Site Owner | Nov 15, 2011 | Words from the Root Cellar
Deer Season and Cider Doughnuts by Axie Barclay Halloween has ended, and as the leaves redden and fall, as the frost settles white and slick on the orange curves of the pumpkins, as the air turns cool and smells like apples and rotting leaves, here in the north,...
by Site Owner | Nov 14, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
by Katie Flanagan The other day I came across a relic from my childhood: a picture book version of the Disney movie Cinderella. This was my favorite movie as a preschooler, and I had several picture books retelling it. Since I was a book lover from the day I was born,...
by Site Owner | Nov 4, 2011 | Writers on Writing
I’M NOT WHITE. I’M NOT BLACK. I’M JUST ME. Diversity in YA by Amalie Howard What is diversity? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of diversity is “the condition of having or being composed of differing elements, especially: the...