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September 7, 2015
Fairy Tales: Fracture them to come up with something new
I have yet to successfully write and sell a fractured fairy tale but Tara Lazar has inspired me to revisit a Billy Goats Gruff retelling. Lazar is the author of Little Red Gliding Hood due out in October. In this spin off of the well known fairy tale, Red is an ice skater. There are many ways […]
September 6, 2015
Creative Energy
If you read my blog regularly, you’ve already read about my joyous encounter with FOX news. Needless to say, my creative energies have been a tad low. How ironic that this is my topic for Labor Day. I don’t really have time for burn out because I have three projects I can’t entirely ignore. I’ve […]
September 3, 2015
Inspiration: Writing Ideas
Inspiration comes from just about everywhere. Recently, I came up with a book idea while reading another author’s book, Pandora’s Mirror by Marella Sands. Normally, when inspiration strikes, I run with it. The way it works is something like this. I’ll be reading a book and something in the story grabs my attention. It might be a […]
September 2, 2015
Research: Source accuracy and checking your facts
One of the things that’s been much on my mind lately is source accuracy. A friend of mine once told me that her father, a lawyer, told her that whenever the media wrote about one of his cases, they were only 50% accurate. She thought that was an exageration before my recent experience with FOX […]
September 1, 2015
What Editors and Agents Want
Recently, I read a post by agent Scott Eagan on why some agents and editors are reluctant to tell writers what they want. At conferences, they give vague answers about voice and character. They do this because they don’t want 100 conference participants to go home and write a contemporary YA or steampunk simply because […]
August 31, 2015
Text book vs Educational book
One of the things that came up in the Black Lives Matter furor (read yesterday’s post) was what is a text book? FOX claimed that Duchess and I wrote a text book to indoctrinate 6th graders. Paul Abdo, our publisher, calmly explained that Abdo doesn’t publish text books. They publish educational books. So what’s the diff? […]
August 30, 2015
FOX News: Black Lives Matter and how to deal with bad reviews
This past week has been interesting. I mean interesting in that midwestern sense — I don’t want to say anything mean so I’ll just say “interesting.” It started last Sunday when a message popped up on my Facebook author page. I don’t remember the exact working but apparently I am racist and “he” is right about […]
August 27, 2015
Diversity: What is Casual Diversity?
Since I’m not writing books that fall into the category of diversity, I decided I better educate myself when I ran into a new-to-me term — Casual Diversity. Casual diversity is when diverse characters populate a story but the story is not about diversity. For example, let’s say you are writing a series of fantasy […]
August 26, 2015
Favorite Books: The Boxcar Children
Recently, I read a series of blog posts about favorite children’s books. This got me thinking about my very own favorites. There may have been one gold medalist but they was, in all truth, a list. The Boxcar Children. I discovered this one when I was 11. I had just started at a new school […]
August 25, 2015
Public Speaking: Newbie Orientation
On Saturday, September 26, 2015, I will be giving the Newbie Orientation at the Missouri SCBWI Fall Conference, Soaring to New Heights. This will be the second year that I’ve been in charge of this session — I hesitate to call it speaking because although I give tips I run it as a Question and […]
