If you follow news about YA literature at all, every once in a while you’ll see articles or blogs about an actual teenager who did the seemingly impossible and signed a contract to publisher his or her teen writing. Now, I’ve talked in the past about John Scalzi’s advice for teenage writers, the key component [...]
Last Wednesday I said goodbye to my pets, hopped in a car with a couple other writers, and left my neighborhood for the desert setting of Palm Springs, where yet another writer would soon be joining us. I had never been on a writing retreat before–or a retreat of any kind, period–so I wasn’t sure [...]
The shoes to the left are pink, aren’t they? Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink. There are some (men) who believe that that’s all women care to read about — shoes (preferably pink), and shopping and sex and romance and cocktails, etc. Phooey to them, I say! What’s the cause of today’s diatribe? Something Maureen Johnson [...]
Ok, who took the day? It was right here in front of me a minute ago, I swear, and now it’s gone. Fess up. Was it you?
