Please welcome our new blogger, Marianne Hering
We’re excited to have Marianne Hering join our blogging staff.
Choosing Your Mentor Text
As any brave explorer would do before embarking on a journey, it’s important for us as children’s writers to choose a reliable flashlight to help us find our way.For writers, our flashlight is a mentor text. What exactly is a mentor text, you may ask? In a nutshell, it’s a children’s book that you want […]
God Breathed: Book Review by Kathryn Dover
“Isn’t it common for Christians to talk about Jesus with far less interest than we show for our favorite team, music, or food?” (22) If God doesn’t speak to you in any other quote from God Breathed by Rut Etheridge III, He will through this one. At least, Etheridge’s question spoke to me. Think about […]
Get to Know Our New Team Member: Nancy I. Sanders
Meet our new planning team member, Nancy I. Sanders
Handy Resources for the Serious Writer
A writer can never have enough craft books—true or false? True, of course! In that case, I have two for you. The first, Blueprint for a Book is written by Jennie Nash, and the second is The Conflict Thesaurus. Both stellar in helping you flesh out plot and characters.
Perceive the Trends in the YA Market: Part III by Guest Blogger, Kim Peterson
Kim Peterson provides three more trends in writing for young adults.
Perceive the Trends in the Young Adult Market: Part II by Guest Blogger, Kim Peterson
In Part I of this series, we’ve explored two trends in writing YA: fantasy and retellings. This time, let’s examine trends that speak to important social and cultural topics. TREND 3: EMPHASIZE MULTICULTURALISM AND DIVERSITY Stories with characters from different cultures continue to be a big draw for tweens and teens. With our current national […]
Perceive the Trends in the Young Adult Market: Part 1 by Guest Blogger, Kim Peterson
Kim Peterson shares two trends in writing for young adults.
5 Ways to Practice Good Literary Citizenship
What does is mean for a writer to practice good literary citizenship and why is it important?
Writing Christian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Guest Blogger Vijaya Bodach
Christian Themes in YA books.