Nonfiction
“Work for Hire: Breaking into the Educational Market,” Highlighter, Spring 2019.
Last year, I did a series of posts on writing work-for-hire nonfiction.
- Part 1: What the heck is WFH?
- Part 2: How do you get started?
- Part 3: What to expect when you get your first gig.
Fiction
- Sense of Place: Creating it in Your Fiction,” Roanoke Regional Writers’ Conference 2019.
- “New books series for middle schools mines family history” – Roanoke Times
- Fiction Notes — I talk about revising Memento Nora on Darcy Pattison Fiction Notes
- Cynsations — I discuss how NOT to write a trilogy / series.
- Inside the Writers Studio — Bethany Hegadus of the Writing Barn interviews me about inspirations, voice, and place.
- Roots in Myth — PJ Hoover and I talk about what it’s like to be a debut writer.
- In the Company of Debuts – I discuss the importance of a community as an author.
Select League of Extraordinary Writer posts:
From 2010-13, I was a founding member and contributing blogger at the League of Extraordinary Writers (see below). I don’t blog much here on my own site anymore. But I have done some fun guest posts as well as League posts that I’d like to share.
- Dystopian Rites of Passage (1)
- Dystopian Rites of Passage (2)
- Muchness of YA Heroines
- Vonnegut’s Rules
- Banned Book Week: The Giver
- Censorship and the Twilight Zone
- Closets of the Apocalypse
- Grammar of Old and New Worlds
- Gay Teens in YA Science Fiction and Fantasy
- The 5 (maybe 6) Stages of Revision
