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Popular Middle Grade Author Stuart Gibbs Launches a New Venture to Help Inspire and Guide Young Writers
Middle grade author Stuart Gibbs launches a new video series designed to help teachers and librarians inspire and educate a young generation of writers
Take 5: Memoirs on writing to hand to aspiring teen authors
“How do you become an author?” We’ve heard teens ask that question every time they meet an author – published, famous, or neither. And we’ve all heard the answer too: read. Read everything. Read more. No, even more than that. Reading is essential. But more than novels, teens who are firmly dedicated to the writing life […]
Why I Write for Teens, a guest post by Fisher Amelie
There is not a more emotion filled age than when we are teens. The highs and lows of our daily lives give you the most dramatic feeling. One minute you’re on top of the world and the next. Well…I don’t think I ever grew out of that. Not really. I mean, they say authors are […]
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The birth of a guest blog post: The other day author Anne Greenwood Brown tweeted that she had nothing to write that day and I, seeing an open door, tweeted back: “Why don’t you write a guest blog post ::cough:: Wait, did I say that out loud?” And she said, “What about?” To which I […]
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