Tyrannies of Right and Left
A review off Margarita Engle's new verse novel Your Heart, My Sky and a defense of democracy and human rights.
MOONWALKING Has a Cover!
Thrilled for my cover of Moonwalking, which captures the art, music, and energy of 1980s Brooklyn.
Parallel Timelines in Historical Fiction
Learning about parallel timelines in historical fiction and a review of one excellent example, Ellen Oh's Finding Junie Kim.
Why Self-Publish Your Memoir
Reasons to write and self-publish a memoir if it doesn't attract interest from a traditional publisher.
Alternatives to the Individual Hero: A Place to Hang the Moon
My previous post on the problem with the individual hero in children's and YA fiction has received a lot of attention. People have asked me for alternatives to this model.…
A Historical Drama and a Master Class
What the TV series A French Village can teach us about character development and the cliffhanger.
Solidarity Light Show
Yesterday, August 31, 2020 marked the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Gdańsk Agreements, which allowed Solidarity to become the first independent trade union in Communist Poland. The moment…
A Big Announcement for TORCH!
Have you ever written a super-secret project, one you didn't want to tell *anyone*? That was me, for years, as I worked on draft after draft of a weird, multi-POV…
A Journey Through Time with Deaf Author Ann Clare LeZotte
Interview with Ann Clare LeZotte, author of Show Me a Sign, a middle grade novel set in the Deaf community of Martha's Vineyard in 1809.
A Deadline and a Pandemic
Sunday night, I wrote "THE END" on the draft of my part of the verse novel MOONWALKING, the story of an unlikely interracial friendship in Brooklyn in 1982 from my…