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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, …

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 …

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 …

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