Housebound
Some thoughts on being stuck indoors for more than a year due to my broken ankle and covid-19.
Some thoughts on being stuck indoors for more than a year due to my broken ankle and covid-19.
Wrapping up my 2020, a year full of both mishaps and achievements, and New Year's Resolutions I forgot to make.
Announcing a new nonfiction book I'm co-authoring with my agency sister Tee Moore, and writing advice.
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…
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…
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…
Interview with the author of new YA historical novel Open Fire, set in Russia in 1917, at a time of war and revolution.
What do you do when someone comes out with a book eerily similar to your unpublished project? How to survive being "scooped."
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.
Starting afresh in a new apartment and with a new book deal, a middle grade historical novel in verse co-authored with Zetta Elliott.