Author: I.W. Gregorio
Mother. Surgeon. YA writer.
LGBTQ in YA month
I’m totally embarrassed to come into LGBTQ YA month so late, but as you saw from my previous post, #amrevising. As usual, I was clued…
My Writing Process: #diversity and #amrevising edition
The lovely Heather Marie has tagged me in the Writing Process blog tour! I’m taking it as an opportunity to write about Diversity in YA, which…
What’s on your bucket list? SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY by Julie Murphy
I am so very excited to celebrate the launch of Julie Murphy’s much-anticipated YA contemporary novel, SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY. Julie’s a fantastic, nuanced writer,…
On Literary Survivor Guilt
I’ve been going to writers’ conferences for years, but this past weekend’s NY SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers) conference was particularly fun: It was…
KidLit for the Philippines
We only have what we give. ― Isabel Allende I am very excited to announce that my agent Jessica Regel and I are contributing to…
How My Book Deal Put Me Into Labor
You write a book and it’s like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don’t know if it will…
The Two Most Glorious Words Ever: BOOK DEAL
The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. -John Steinbeck If you were to go back in time and…
May All Your Conference Dreams Come True (How I Got My Agent)
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down… – Edna St. Vincent Millay My first writer’s conference…
The Circumstances of My Life
Yesterday for the first time in months, an indisputable ability to do good work. And yet wrote only the first page. Again I realize that…