The Poet Who Saw Me – Wednesday Writing Wisdom
carriejonesbooks 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…
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Children Shouldn’t Be Lost
I am currently involved with this quote and I’m trying to think about how Zara (the main character in my NEED series) would react to it. “It is not the…
My Nana’s Funeral Was Awful – Seriously Awful
Because my family is a bit – um – all over the place, I ended up having multiple grandmothers when I was growing up. I had a Nana, a Grammy,…
How To Write Sucky YA Novels
So, you want to write a young adult novel and you want it to be bad? I hear you. You’re tired of trying to write good novels for kids. Writing…
Why You Should be Vulnerable in a World of Trolls
Last week, I got the first pass proofs of ESCAPE FROM THE BADLANDS, the third book in the TIME STOPPERS series. I am afraid of pass proofs. But they are…