What Makes A Story Awesome.
carriejonesbooks Yesterday on our podcast, Dogs are Smarter Than People, we talked about emotional pulls of stories and premises. That’s a big key about what makes a story awesome, but there…
Wednesday Writing Wisdom
There is Evil Out There And We All Need to Fight It
Real life can be more cruel than books. It’s a hard truth. Us writers often hear from editors, “Can you make the villain more understandable?” We often hear, “Nobody would…
Professors I Have Hated and Loved
I only hated two professors in college. One because he was misogynist buttface who only liked guys and was openly derisive about women being incapable of creating art because we…
The Poet Who Saw Me – Wednesday Writing Wisdom
When I was a kid at Bates College, I spent a lot of my time feeling like less. My family had been kind of poor after my step-father died. My…
Why I Need A Bodyguard
So a couple of years ago, I went to Toronto to the INDIGO TEEN READS AWARDS, which were beyond awesome. And I am traveling again to Book Expo America this…