I Cut the Cord
Where I cancel my cable TV service after the company jacked up my rates. Because large corporations are not our friends.
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Know Your History
Knowing history is key to making informed decisions in the present, because we can see the consequences of similar decisions in the past.
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On Giving Support and Eating Dessert First: An Interview with Dean Gloster
I met Dean Gloster in the summer of 2015, when he started in the MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts and I served as...
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The Dearly Departed
Parallels between my favorite eateries that have gone out of business and fresh, brave small press publishers of young adult books that couldn’t survive.
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Patrice Kindl’s Letter to Parents: Writing for Teens About Very Bad People
In conjunction with the launch of her new book, Don’t You Trust Me?, Patrice Kindl discusses writing evil protagonists.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
