It has always felt fitting to me that the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention is held on the week before Thanksgiving.…
Category: Writing
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…
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…
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…