Posts about editing

This post was originally posted on the Lee & Low blog.   I’ve long been a fan of mysteries. Trixie Belden was my BFF as[…]

I’ve been talking a lot about Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s new book, Summer of the Mariposas, which we’ll be publishing at Tu this fall. Another thing[…]

In a sentence: WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PEN?? I loved the old Precise V5s. Almost every editor I know who I’ve ever talked[…]

I recently lamented that I had little blog fodder anymore—and of course I know you are all languishing to know what has been happening in[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Justine Larbalestier’s new book, Liar, has been getting a lot of attention lately. When she first revealed the cover, I thought it was nice —[…]

For those of you who are RPG players or DMs, here’s a book for you. Back in April, I got the chance to line edit/copyedit[…]

Today the #followreader conversation on Twitter covers self-publishing, and I just wrote this post to the Utah Children’s Writers list in answer to a similar[…]