Ask Yourself If You Must Create
This month I’m participating in the A to Z Challenge, blogging every day of the month of April, except Sundays, on a topic from A to Z. I’m posting short-form topics meant to get you talking and sharing! Join the discussion in the comments. The word I was originally going to use for the letter…
Wired to Create by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire
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Why You Should Read Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
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The Flight of the White Crow, Chapter One
This is chapter one of the novel I’m self-publishing this year, soon, in a few months, I don’t have a launch date yet. Soon. If you like it, sign up for the email list in the box at the end of the post to be notified when it’s published. —— What the crow-girl Fannilea was…
Let Me Read You a Bedtime Story: Double Dutch
So all week this week on the blog I’m doing something completely crazy; I’m taking my own advice and sharing some of my fiction. This is a short story I wrote in my 20s. Please leave me some nice comments if you like it. Please keep your trap shut if you don’t … 😉 Just kidding.…
Giveaway! Handmade Coptic-Bound Book
I made this beautiful, hand bound coptic book just for one of you … With endpapers that came from a good book … This is a handmade piece, crafted lovingly and entirely by me. The pages are blank. It lays flat for easy writing, drawing, painting, mixed media collaging, etc. Do something amazing with it and…
Why I Write: A Love Letter to This Thing I’m Trying to Do
Writers often answer the question “Why do you write?” with “Because I have to.” I get that. If I go too many days without writing, I become cranky and snappish and uncomfortable with myself. No one wants to live with me in that state, not even me. Best if I sequester myself in a quiet warm…
The Big Fat List of 101 of the Best (Older) YA and MG Books
Are you on the hunt for good fiction? Are you finding yourself lost, staring at the shelves, not sure where to turn? Are you feeling like there used to be so much great stuff to read, but now … most of the books you look at just seem … shallow? Yeah, well, me, too. I…
3 Reasons Adults Are Reading Books for Teens
Digital Book World reported in October 2014 that young adult and children’s books are the biggest factor driving the growth of trade publishing. Hollywood’s been snatching up YA and middle grade titles at an unprecedented rate. So what gives? How come the whole world is suddenly paying attention to books written for teenagers? Because they…