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Read more about the article Housebound

Housebound

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:January 15, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Writing
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Some thoughts on being stuck indoors for more than a year due to my broken ankle and covid-19.

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Read more about the article 2020 New Year’s Resolutions Check-in

2020 New Year’s Resolutions Check-in

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:December 28, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Writing
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Wrapping up my 2020, a year full of both mishaps and achievements, and New Year's Resolutions I forgot to make.

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Read more about the article I Get to Write Another Book!

I Get to Write Another Book!

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:November 13, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Writing
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Announcing a new nonfiction book I'm co-authoring with my agency sister Tee Moore, and writing advice.

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Read more about the article A Change of Course (with Writing Advice)

A Change of Course (with Writing Advice)

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:August 25, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Writing
  • Post comments:3 Comments

I didn't always write fiction. After losing a contract for a YA novel many years ago, I decided to take a sure thing -- an offer on a nonfiction proposal…

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Read more about the article A Big Announcement for TORCH!

A Big Announcement for TORCH!

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:June 16, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/International/Writing
  • Post comments:14 Comments

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…

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Read more about the article A Deadline and a Pandemic

A Deadline and a Pandemic

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:April 21, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Music/Writing
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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…

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Read more about the article Armchair Traveler Through Time: An Interview with Amber Lough

Armchair Traveler Through Time: An Interview with Amber Lough

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:April 7, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/International/Writing
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Interview with the author of new YA historical novel Open Fire, set in Russia in 1917, at a time of war and revolution.

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Read more about the article Scooped!

Scooped!

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:January 10, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Writing
  • Post comments:5 Comments

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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Read more about the article Checking on Those New Year’s Resolutions

Checking on Those New Year’s Resolutions

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:December 29, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Lego/Writing
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Taking stock of my 2019 New Year's Resolutions, and celebrating the achievement of 2 out of 3, both of them related to my Lego work.

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Read more about the article A Fresh Start

A Fresh Start

  • Post author:Lyn Miller-Lachmann
  • Post published:December 15, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Lego/Writing
  • Post comments:6 Comments

Starting afresh in a new apartment and with a new book deal, a middle grade historical novel in verse co-authored with Zetta Elliott.

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