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February 1, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Gothic Obsessed, a guest post by Dianne K. Salerni

In The Carrefour Curse, I have revisited my gothic obsessed childhood and had a great deal of fun doing so. 

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Kendare Blake talks Scoobies old and new, a Buffy-less Buffyverse series, and more!

January 30, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Philosophy and/as/of Literature, a guest post by Amy Zhang

Life would be so much easier if it came with a map that contained all the right answers. But as Ocean and I have learned, mapmaking is sort of the point.

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The Value of Innocence for BIPOC Students, a guest post by David Mura

January 27, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

In The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself, I examine how, throughout our history, from 1619 on, Black and BIPOC Americans have always been assumed to be guilty until proven innocent and sometimes there was no proving them innocent.

Inventing the Wheel: Behind the Scenes of THE MANY FORTUNES OF MAYA, a guest post by Nicole D. Collier, Ph.D.

January 26, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

The more Maya explored those Deep Downs and learned to listen to her own voice, the more she understood that the best fortunes are the ones she writes for herself.

The Key is Self-love: Powerful Transitions in YA Books, a guest post by Charlene Allen

January 25, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Transitions are tough, and they never stop coming. It’s a good thing we have great books to help us through them.

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Bringing Grief Out of the Shadows, a guest post by Megan Paasch

January 24, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

I didn’t originally intend to write a book about grief. But then, my father died.

YA Publication as an Immigrant: A Conversation with Sofía Lapuente & Jarrod Shusterman

January 23, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

I believe there is an important place for serious dramas but why does culture and immigration always come with tears and seriousness? Often, we are the fiesta!

The Future of Our Past, a guest post by Lesa Cline-Ransome

January 20, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

There seems like an awfully long distance between the past and future and yet, whether it is 1940 or 2040, the questions I continue to find most intriguing are timeless.  Who are we in the worst of times? What does it mean to survive? And, What do we want our world to look like?      

How My Local Library Changed — and Saved — My Life, a guest post by Mike Albo

January 17, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

I didn’t set out to make the library so central in Another Dimension of Us, but as I was writing this book, the library became the one place where the characters felt safe — just like it was for me when I was like Tommy: a gay-but-definitely-not-out 15-year-old in the 80s.

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