Announcing Work in Progress Awards!
Using my experience with Gringolandia, I encourage SCBWI members to apply for the Work-in-Progress Awards that open for submission every year in March.
Armchair Traveler to Imagined Worlds
Travel via books can be to imagined worlds, like our own but with magic, as I found out reading Christina Soontornvat's A Wish in the Dark.
Redemption: The Ugly History of a Word
Connecting the word "redemption," used at a MAGA rally, to the history of the 19th century Redemption that brought us Jim Crow.
A Change in Plans
The cancellation of my travels to Portugal this year and what I'll be doing instead.
Plebiscite
Seeing the 2020 election not as a contest between two presidential candidates but as an up-or-down vote on democracy itself.
Lego Fernando Pessoa on the Book Rocket, powered by Mensagem.
Armchair Traveler
Because of my broken ankle, I missed this year's New York Times Travel Show and that opportunity to plan my summer trip, which will -- ankle permitting -- take us…
Life Imitates Art and a Broken Leg Foreshadowed
Like my character in the 2015 Lego soap opera Brickland, I now have a broken leg. Some thoughts on being laid up.
Women’s March
A report on the 2020 Women's March in NYC and why we need to start putting up Hong Kong numbers if we want to keep our democracy.
What Are Comps and Why Are They Important?
When querying agents or submitting to publishers, writers often encounter the question, "What are the comps?" "Comps?" The word refers to comparative -- or competitive -- titles. Nonfiction book proposals…
Scooped!
What do you do when someone comes out with a book eerily similar to your unpublished project? How to survive being "scooped."
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