Guest Post: Lindsey Lane on How a Picture Book Author-Playwright-Journalist Became a YA Author

By Lindsey Lane
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

It’s opening night. I am sitting in the audience at the debut of a play I had written.

I remember thinking as I watched, “This is as much as I know right now.” It wasn’t a negative thought. I simply knew that this play was the culmination of everything I knew up to that moment.

The next play I wrote would be the sum of more knowledge. I knew that I would learn from each attempt. I knew I would grow every time I came to the page.

And I did.

The...