I am super excited to announce that I will be a faculty member for the Pneuma Creative Writing Retreat this October! If you’ve ever dreamed of working with me in person and picking my brain for three days as we sip wine and gawk at the gorgeous New England trees – this is your chance!…
Welcome to the third installment of my YA Self-Publishing Series. Today, I’m interviewing C.E.Diamond, author of The Lost Legacy series. She’s here to tell us about the research involved when one decides to become a self-published indie author. Additionally, she loves witches (her Lost Legacy series is all about them), and she’ll give us a sneak peek…
I got stuck before I even started. Yup, I was chomping at the bit to dive into my YA fantasy novel The Nevers and … I got blocked on page one. On LINE one! It happens to all of us writers. You know the drill … you sit down in your cozy writing chair with…
I get this question all the time … but usually I avoid it. The writing process can be delicate and it’s hard to talk about a project before you really know what it is. FORGET ALL THAT! I’m trying something new. Rather than keeping my latest work-in-progress under lock and key, I’ve decided to do 100%…
It’s the holiday season and my favorite thing to buy for friends and family is books, books, and more books! If you’re a big book giver for the holidays and are looking for some great suggestions for the kids, teens, adults, and writers in your life … then look no further. Keep reading for my 2016…
Self-publishing used to be considered a vanity choice, but with the current flux of the book industry, independent publishing has blossomed into an exciting new market. Independent authors are taking control of their own publishing careers and becoming entrepreneurs who write, market, and publish. It’s the wild wild west of publishing with a wide variety of results,…
I’m super excited to introduce you all to the wonderful YA author Madeline Dyer. She writes dark YA and explores the topics of survival and rebellilon in her latest YA dystopian series Untamed. She also has a fascination the relationship between madness and death, lives in the UK with her Shetland ponies, and loves Victorian novels….
I am so incredibly excited to share my interview with paranormal YA novelist Melle Amade today! Melle holds a special place in my heart. First off, we attended film school together. Second, the two of us have been in a writing critique group for so many years I can’t even count them (six … maybe?)….
Have you ever wanted to write a young adult novel about a family in crisis? I was struck by the passion and knowledge of four authors who spoke at the AWP writer’s conference in March. They discussed the challenges of writing novels about families caught up in abuse, war, poverty, PTSD, and the loss of a…
I’m so excited to be talking with the amazing YA author Shannon M. Parker today! Her debut novel The Girl Who Fellcame out at the beginning of March from Simon Pulse. I had the delight of reading an early version of The Girl Who Fell and it’s an important story that explores the dangers of first love and what it means…