Authors often get into trouble when they’re writing books for children or adults and end up blending the two in an awkward way. I’m here to clear up confusion around the differences between children’s books and adult books. Particularly when authors write “coming of age” novels or fictionalized versions of their childhood, they sometimes end […]
Young Adult Literature
Book links for a slow news day (This week in books)
This week! Books! I know you’re probably bored today because so little is happening in the world and you’re looking for some links to click on. WELL. I have some for you!! Some great publishing news this week as bestselling authors Nicola and David Yoon are starting an imprint oriented toward romances featuring heroes of […]
Ways to make a difference in the book world (This week in books)
This week! Books! Also justice! We’ve had an incredibly distressing week in America, and I know a lot of people are wondering how to get involved and support this movement to end systemic injustice and brutality. There are tons of exhaustive resources out there, from bail funds to proposals for reform to call scripts for […]
Writing children’s books from the inside out
So. You want to write children’s books. Do you have to know any current, modern day children? Nope. You really don’t need to know children to write children’s books. In fact, I even think it can be a hindrance for some people. The problem with writing children’s books from the outside in, as in, writing […]
Publication alert: Until It Hurts to Stop by Jennifer Hubbard
Jennifer Hubbard’s The Secret Year was one of the first YA novels I sold, and it remains one of my favorite YA novels I’ve ever read. It tells the story of a boy who has a secret relationship with a girl who dies as the novel opens. He’s the only living person who knew the […]
Race, Children’s Books and Jacob Wonderbar
There has been some justified talk about the state of race in children’s books lately. Most recently, First Book issued the infographic above about a recent survey that illustrated how few characters are non-white in children’s books. Lee and Low asked why the number of multicultural books haven’t increased in the past eighteen years. If […]
