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insights into telling and selling your kidlit stories
readings on writing
miscellaneous musings on
the creative process
Two Green Birds: Memory & Imagination
Geraldo Valerio talks about Memory & Imagination
Why Hi-Lo is the way to Go
High school teacher Lea Beddia shares a successful strategy using Hi-Lo books with striving teen readers.
The Tricks we Play to Help us Write Every Day
Marthe Jocelyn offers a few ideas for how to get through a working day...
These Are Not the Words: the Understory
Amanda West Lewis tells how this personal novel is true - and not...
6 Reasons to Hook Young Readers on Mysteries
Marthe Jocelyn talks about how mayhem and murder can boost reading skills and family harmony...
Write an Amazing Educator Guide
Retired teacher, Diana Murrell, makes suggestions for writing a guide that teachers will actually use.
My Mad Hair Day: The Understory
"My hair was a beast that had to be tamed..."
Deborah Kalb talks to Kathy Kacer about heroes of the Holocaust
A woman sailor stars in the fourth book in the Heroes Quartet.
Percy’s Museum: The Understory
Sara O'Leary tells how a story came to be.
Faction and Fiction: What was it about that afternoon?
Sarah Ellis considers a girl and a character and how the twain shall meet
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