PROJECT MAYHEM

To celebrate the release of my new book, You Can Write for Children : How to Write Great Stories, Articles, and Books for Kids and Teena...

I’m in the middle of a major revision on my middle grade novel. This would explain my short-term memory loss, constant misplacement of ca...

Now for one of my pet peeves.  I’ve noticed, as I’m sure many of you have, an increasing trend in modern fiction: the use of non-spe...

I thought I’d continue Dawn’s discussion of what makes middle grade by focusing on writing middle grade dialogue. I have some writer friends...

If you’re writing fiction, dialogue is most likely going to make up a good part of your book, so you want it to be topnotch. Dialogue is a m...