Guest Post: Carol Coven Grannick on "Into the Scary for the Sake of Joy"

By Carol Coven Grannick
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

I’ve been musing about what project I will work on next. Of my numerous ideas, which will take me into the challenging and blissful intellectual, emotional, psychological environment that I’ve been in for more than two years with my middle grade novel in verse, now on submission through my agent?

While I’ve written and revised it many, many times without having the thought of whether or not it would ever be published hovering close t...