Yesterday, dozens of us 2013 debut kid-lit authors offered writing and marketing advice at WriteOnCon. I feel like I need to expand upon th...

If you're a writer and you've never thought too hard about what your characters eat, perhaps it's time for you to pull up a chai...

I started reading John Green's new young adult novel, The Fault in Our Stars , today, and I immediately found myself hooked by his writi...

The theme this week at The Lucky 13s is What Keeps You Going When the Going Gets Tough . I responded with a song: "THE TWELVE DAYS OF...

Once upon a time, when I was a teenager and some good-looking guy named Johnny Depp starred in a TV series called 21 Jump Street , I met a w...

Before I get into my main subject here, I thought I'd share a picture of some snowflakes we experienced this morning.  The photo doesn...

I keep forgetting to recommend a book I received for my birthday: Scout, Atticus, & Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mocki...

I'm almost ready to let Blackbirds head off to my next critique partner this weekend. I recently realized the book and I have reached ...

I met with an editor recently and mentioned I have some violence in my YA manuscript. I asked if that's a problem, and she said, "...