Gold leaves danced on the brisk air and dropped into the lake, drawing rings in the reflected sunrise… I just spent the weekend at a writing retreat in rural Illinois. It was beautiful, quiet, and serene (everything that Los Angeles is not). It was a much needed break from the honking of traffic and the…
Some stories are not about a single protagonist. Sometimes a group or community becomes the larger focus. Using a community as a designing principle is the fourth category in this series. Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Struasser explores the complexity of a school shooting and could have been told from POV of the shooter,…
The following kidlit book signings and events will be taking place in the LA area in the month of June, 2010. Go kids books! Saturday June, 12th: 10:30 am: Author Francesca Lia Block reads her Picture Book House of Dolls at Children’s Book World. Located at: 10580 1/2 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064…
Vice president of publishing at Clarion books, Dinah Stevenson, shares her strategies for success during hard economic times: CREATIVITY! Everyone sees and defines creativity differently. Creativity is imagination, it is the ability to make stuff up. “Creativity is an essential strategy for a writer.” Creativity is something you do – like going on vacation, it…