Descriptive Language that Sparkles
Kill your darlings! Get to the point! Plot over prose! How many times have you heard advice about simplifying your writing for middle...
Descriptive Language that Sparkles
SIWC - Simply Inspiring Writers' Conference
Middle Grade Fantasy Word Counts – Part 2
Middle Grade Fantasy Word Counts – Part 1
Imagine that! Opening and Closing Images
Setting the Scene
Exposition 101 – SPELL SWEEPER
How Gordon Korman uses 6 POVs!?!
REVIEW: The Oddmire by William Ritter
REVIEW: Seventh Grade vs. the Galaxy by Joshua S. Levy
Podcast: Adapting Narnia
REVIEW: Harper and the Fire Star by Cerrie Burnell
A Dastardly Plot by Christopher Healy (Guest Review for The Book Wars)
The YAK Speaks: Messy Rough Drafts
Horror for Kids – with booktuber Emily of Page Turns
BLOG TOUR: The Flight of Swans by Sarah McGuire
Adapting Books for Stage & Screen – with Caitlin Boyle
Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older (Guest Review for The Book Wars)
Canadian Corner: J. Fitzgerald McCurdy
Canadian Corner: William Pasnak
Graced with Epic-ness: Kristin Cashore’s Series Structure
The YAK speaks! Diversity in kidlit