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5 Great Reasons (For Adults) to Read YA
A piece recently appeared in the New York Times in which the author, Joel Stein (or Unfunny McSnark, as I affectionately refer to him), laid out the reasons that adults should only read books written...
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The Formula
Once, I received an E-mail from a woman who was trying to write a mass-market YA novel. “I understand that a lot of these books are formulaic,” she wrote, “so would you please tell me the formula?”...
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Thankful
I remember being a teenager, standing in a bookstore, running my fingers over the smooth spines. I lived with my mother, and we didn’t have a lot of money. When I was a freshman in high school, the...
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Success is Plan B
Several years ago, I went to hear a panel of illustrators at the Eric Carle museum. Whoever organized it clearly did not have much experience with panels, because this had something like nineteen...
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Adding Madness to the Method
I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who have a journal. I like to picture myself sitting in the sun, using a fountain pen to scribble out my Deep Thoughts and Observations. I think a journal...
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I Like Big Books
One of my odd little hobbies is reading books on the craft of writing. I love them. I don’t read them looking for answers, I just read them because I like to think about reading and writing. It’s like...
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