I feel like I'm 13 anytime a book of mine is coming out. @nervesofsteel is no different. (More about the book and its release April 2023, here.) What I want to talk about now is why this book came to be. When you're 13 going on 14, a whole lot of things are going … [Read more...] about 13 Going on 14
young adult literature
Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant Canon
So a thing happened, as folks today like to say, deliberately understating the bigness of said thing. And as part of my work these last two years at Vermont College Fine Arts' program in Writing for Children and Young Adults—besides writing one and a half young adult novels, … [Read more...] about Is YA Literary? The Search for an Abundant Canon