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Tag: Writing
Never Too Much, a guest post by Catherine Bakewell
When I was in middle school, the word “nerd” was thrown around a lot, a word that then meant someone who was too much, who loved something too deeply. This passion was a delicate flame within me when I was 14, a little older than Elissa, the protagonist of my novel, We Are the Song.
Writing Disability and Immigration from a Place of Wholeness, a guest post by Natalia Sylvester
When I finally found my way to writing a novel about growing up as an immigrant with hip dysplasia, it was this wholeness—not parts of me segmented into boxes—that guided me. I wrote Breathe and Count Back from Ten because the only way I can imagine creating books in a world that draws boundaries around my identity is to write myself beyond them.
Fairy Tales and Final Girls in THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL, a guest post by R. M. Romero
As much as my younger self loved final girls like Gerda from The Snow Queen, Buffy Summers, and Clarice Starling however, these characters didn’t exactly reflect my lived experience. They were all white women and they were all at least coded as being Christian, if not outright stated to be so. So in 2019, I decided to write a final girl who was like me: Ilana Lopez, the biracial heroine of The Ghosts of Rose Hill.
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Series are the “Comfort Food” of the Book World, a guest post by Erin Soderberg Downing
I like to think series books are the “Comfort Tacos” of the book world; they pull you in and swaddle you up in a world where you know you belong, know you feel comfortable, and where everything is just a little easier.
Liz Lawson and Kathleen Glasgow in Conversation
The authors of THE AGATHAS talk about their experience writing their book, a story about two teen girls who go rogue to solve the disappearance of Brooke Donovan, the richest and most popular girl at their high school.
Fact Versus Fiction in Middle Grade Literature, a guest post by Frank Morelli
The simple truth is, there has never been a time in history when simply knowing the truth was such a monumental task. Now imagine what that task must look like to a young reader.
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Growing Up Geek: Writing What I Know, a guest post by F. T. Lukens
I might have not lived in a castle or ruled a kingdom. I have never needed to break a curse by finding my one true love. But I have wielded magic to defeat a moat monster more than once either in my imagination or in a video game or with a deck of cards.
The Art of Co-authoring and Collaboration, a guest post by Katie and Kevin Tsang
Some people might think that writing a book with someone you are close with (in our case, a spouse) is a recipe for disaster. Luckily for us, we’ve figured out ways to make it work, and the result is books we are super proud of.
Counterintuitive Writing Tips That Will Help You Actually Finish That Book, a guest post by Stephan Lee
I realized that all the amazing writing tips out there are only helpful to a point. What turned me into a writer who could actually finish projects and get them published had more to do with growing as a human being than literal writing advice.
Something Strange and Unsettling: Cosmic Horror and its Influence on My Dearest Darkest, a guest post by Kayla Cottingham
When I set out to write My Dearest Darkest, I wanted to create a cosmic horror story starring the kind of people that Lovecraft demonized: queer people, people of color, and women.
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