Support for the Midlist Author: The SCBWI Jane Yolen Grant
For authors with extended dry spells (five years or more since your last contract), reasons for applying for the SCBWI Jane Yolen Mid-List Author grant.
Strategies for Persistence: The Next Book
Do you give up on a manuscript and move on after a pile of rejections, or do you revise to take feedback into account? Arguments for sticking with a story.
Talking Verse Novels at GetLitBeacon
Expanding on my presentation about verse novels at GetLitBeacon, along with the reading list I promised.
“…Couldn’t Connect to Your Main Character”
A discussion of a generic rejection phrase that marginalized fiction writers often receive and what it may mean.
The Uses and Misuses of Mentor Texts
The importance of reading, even if it means a writer is thrown off-course though admiration for books read.
Translation Workshop
Since becoming co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee, I've been working on some new initiatives that draw from my experience as a writer of my own fiction and a translator…
A New Agent!
Readers who are familiar with the publishing industry already know this, but many of my blog's readers are not familiar with the process of making books (making sausage is clean…
Let’s Try Again: My 2019 New Year’s Resolutions
My 2019 New Year's Resolutions, what I've learned from not achieving past ones and how to make these more successful.
A New Translation Grant!
One of the duties of the PEN Translation Committee, of which I'm now a co-chair, is to administer the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, an annual award of from $2,000 to…
Absurdities and Atrocities
Thoughts on propaganda and political violence, along with a poem inspired by my family heritage trip.