Inspiration streaks across an author’s mind like a shooting star. Sudden. There and gone. Sometimes you make the wish and then the falling piece of space debris is gone. Other times, if you’re lucky, you grab that piece of inspiration by the tail, yank yourself on it, and ride that bucking sucker to a fully […]
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Inspiration and Hope from N.K. Jemisin
Anyone who stumbles through here should click here. Yes, go ahead. Author N.K. Jemisin–who wrote the “Inheritance Trilogy” books–crafted a beautiful essay. I won’t go into the details but to put simply, she writes about dreaming and succeeding when people want to pull you down and kick you in the ribs. She writes about finding […]
Boys and Reading: I relate
Why I Write Fiction for Children and Young Adults
My main audience is children and young adults, at least they have been for the last three or so novels I’ve written. I like writing about children and teenagers going on radical adventures, having to grow up through extraordinary circumstances. In these stories, sometimes even the rottenest youngster can be redeemed, because they have not […]
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