The “I Am Here” Reading and Exhibition and the Brooklyn Blossoms Book Club
A report on a panel of the Brooklyn Blossoms Book Club, featuring four award-winning black women authors and a photo exhibit celebrating black girls and women.
A report on a panel of the Brooklyn Blossoms Book Club, featuring four award-winning black women authors and a photo exhibit celebrating black girls and women.
The arrival of my ARCs of Surviving Santiago from my publisher, Running Press Kids, leads me to think about what made that novel so much fun to write.
My reasons for observing Buy Nothing Day instead of Black Friday, along with a review of a YA novel that explores the global consequences of buying stuff.
An update on an ongoing and increasingly successful fundraising campaign for #WeNeedDiverseBooks that will create new opportunities for writers of color.
A report on the CLNE conference, "Writing the Past: Yesterday Was Once Today," held November 14-16, 2014 at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Prompted by the SCBWI's creation of a new category for translators, I reflect on the need for more children's books in translation.
A report on the Sixth Annual Albany Children's Book Festival from the attendee side of the table.
I introduce Surviving Santiago via the 777 Challenge, in which I post from a work-in-progress seven full lines from the seventh page, starting seven lines down.
In a guest post, literary agent Regina L. Brooks offers five general rules for writing young adult fiction that both teens and adults will want to read.
Thoughts on motivation, validation, and what it means to be an amateur photographer or writer making art for the fun of it.