Posts in publishing

I have a friend whose 11-year-old daughter likes scary books. She asks: Hoping maybe you can help. My daughter who will be 11 in a[…]

ETA 11/6/12: As with all my book lists, I’m putting this on Pinterest so I can more easily keep this list up-to-date. For a more[…]

ETA 5/22/12: I’m keeping this book list up to date on Pinterest nowadays, linking each book to its Goodreads entry. It’s much easier to just[…]

This was posted on the old Tu Publishing blog back before I moved to New York and joined Lee & Low. You may have seen[…]

Last week, as I was going through a pile of submissions, I was thinking about the kinds of submissions I’ve been seeing. Many of them[…]

I missed most of last night’s #yalitchat on Twitter, but I caught just a few pithy remarks from editors and writers that I wanted to[…]

Another writer question, the answer for which I think will help more than just one writer. If any of you have questions about what we’re[…]

Thanks for all the comments on my last post discussing writing African American characters (Is my character “black enough”?). The perspectives in the comments are[…]

I recently got this question from a writer, who agreed that answering it on the blog would be useful: My hero is a fifteen-year-old African[…]

Spring is in the air. It’s been raining for the last several days, but it seems to be clearing up. While there hasn’t been much[…]