It’s All Good! How You Can Create Diversity in Publishing
How parents and general readers can use their purchasing power to support diverse authors, alternative voices and a new generation of book-lovers.
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Speaking to the Teachers of Tomorrow at UConn
At the University of Connecticut I shared my experiences of growing up “different” and offered advice to both young writers and future teachers.
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Complicating the Minifig: Layered Narrative
In contrast to linear, chronological narrative, a layered narrative plays with time sequence to reveal character bit by bit and to build curiosity and suspense.
Read MoreThe Writer on the Road: Schenectady County Community College
On my dear departed MobileMe blog, I had an occasional series titled “The Writer on the Road,” which featured reports of my various speaking engagements in...
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The Lesson of “NO”
My friend and VCFA classmate Linda Washington just started her blog with a review of the film The Artist, and it inspired me to write about a film I saw last weekend...
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
