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I’ve been writing. Well, re-writing. Ten years ago, I finished a sprawling, 140,00-word beautiful mess of a novel. Beautiful because there’s so much of my early twenties enthusiasm in it — and bits of nice writing here and there. It’s an overflow of ideas — societal collapse and technology and magic and unexplained [...] Yet again, someone is wringing their hands about the content of young adult fiction. This time it’s Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal. I responded to a similar article ten months ago. The arguments were a little different, but the main concern was the same — that the subjects of YA fiction are [...] I just returned from Comic-Con, where I worked at the SLG Publishing booth. Most of the time, I ferry books around — helping to set up for signings and keeping the store stocked. I do a few portfolio reviews and talk to aspiring comic book creators as well. I have to admit to having divided [...] On the advice of an editor, I am revising Sliver of Light to be a young adult novel. From the beginning, people have commented it might be better situated in YA because of its protagonist and relatively short length (it’s about 80,000 words), but I was unsure how to tailor it for that audience. Fortunately, [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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