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According to Matt,* a fourth grader at my school who often pops into the library to chat, I am a spy. I am also being spied on.
To every writer toiling with only belief and persistence to fuel them, I salute you. May your words flow smoothly and your stories soar. And may you know, like I did, when to put a book on a shelf—and when to bring it back out into the light.
People don’t fit into neat boxes so I don’t think we should force characters into them, either.
So many people want to chide a girl or a woman for being angry. So few want to ask her what she’s angry about.
I thought I was setting the story just barely beyond our current technology to hook my readers with cutting-edge science. I didn’t expect for science to surpass my book before it came out, but I’ve never been happier to be wrong.
I don’t want to go into spoilers or ruin any of the surprises in Ski Weekend but you will absolutely find little gems throughout the pages that can mean the difference between life and death in a cold weather survival scenario.
My problem with the word, ‘talent’ is it suggests something elusive that we have no control over, an innate trait that we either have or don’t have, that we’re born with or we’re not - and we don’t really use that word in non-creative sphere’s.
A story about Superheroes? Really? I have to confess I know almost nothing about superheroes, or at least I didn’t before starting to write HOW TO SAVE A SUPERHERO. But this is how it happened.
Sometimes strength is called for in life, sometimes vulnerability makes us stronger. What’s important is that we allow for a full range of human emotions and individualized reactions. That we acknowledge that risking mistakes is one of the strongest things we can do.
SALT MAGIC began when I ripped up some plywood flooring in my old house and found a 1927 newspaper article underneath. A few years later I stumbled onto the newspaper article in my files, did a little research, and became totally freaking obsessed.
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