Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
My other job (not including super mom in tights) is writing resumes for various professional types. I asked for entertainment industry or publishing job seekers because that is my background, but so far I’ve had everything from industrial engineers to […]
I’ve heard back from three out of four of my beta readers. I’ve made some suggested revisions. The last reader is my most formidable (plus she’s my mother). I am nervous. I am nervous because the YA I just completed […]
I have 4 beta readers. Sometimes, if I’m lucky, I have 5. These are the people who read everything I write once it’s completed and before I send it to my agent and then hopefully to my editor. These people […]
The WIP I just finished writing is set in the punk-rock California of the mid-80’s and tells of the friendship between two teenage girls, their adventures and the events which changed both of their lives. It is a book I […]
This is timely because yesterday I had one of those days when it seemed like every word I pulled from my brain was the wrong one. Simple scenes were impossible to describe, dialogue was forced and transitions moved sluggishly. I […]
I have a friend. Let’s call her Trixie. She is a truly talented visual artist, still struggling to make it, but really creative and ambitious. I have no doubt that she’ll be huge some day soon. She’s working on a […]
No less a luminary than Roald Dahl said that writing for children was the hardest sort of writing there was. He was also of the opinion that women made better childrens lit authors. I dont remember his reasoning. It was […]
I write YA, but that doesnt mean I try to replicate how teenagers talk.Somehow over the last twenty years or so, I have stopped being a teenager myself and become an old person. It is an eternal mystery to me.And […]
My first published book was a middle grade fantasy. Its called “The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton†and you can look it up if you want. It looks like this: I was contracted to do a series of at least […]
Ok, Im going to be simplistic here because Im a simplistic sort of a gal…NOT (I was just being self-deprecating in a British sort of a way).However I do know that the way most people view brain function is a […]