NIPing Away
The newest Novel In Progress, carrying the acronym EWFM, is well underway. Today, I reached page 74 and finally found the POV character’s internal voice. Whew! I was beginning to wonder if it would happen at all. When I wrote my JFN (Just Finished Novel with a working title of BFG), the POV character, Bascom, started speaking to me around page 9, so it was an easy fix to go back and...
Read MoreALAN Workshop Authors
ALAN has announced its list of authors attending the workshop this year. It’s a great list, with a bunch of familiar favorites and new faces. If you’re never been to the workshop before, you’re missing out on one of the best events in the YA literature world. It’s held each year on the Monday after the NCTE Convention. This year, it will be in Pittsburgh, November...
Read MoreGraham Salisbury: Island Boy
My biography/criticism of Graham Salisbury is coming out on June 28. It’s the latest in the Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature (#20), which has featured similar books on other YA authors such as Robert Cormier, Karen Hesse, M.E. Kerr, Orson Scott Card, and many others (this series began awhile ago as the Twayne Series on YA novelists). I’ll be happy to get a copy of the book...
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