Everyone knows fairies love spring flowers and summer sun, but what happens when autumn comes and the days get shorter and colder? Now, Liza Gardner
Author: Alumni & Guests
Posts by guests, alumni, & infrequent bloggers
Interview with Author Susan Holt Kralovansky and Pelican Publishing’s Antoinette de Alteriis
By Liz LeSavoy I met Susan Holt Kralovansky though the 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge. A talented author and a fiber artist, Susie is
One Story, Two Endings: A review of PAPER TOWNS book and movie
GUEST POST by Sarah Knowles Note: While technically spoiler-free, this review contains a quick description of the beginning of the story and speaks thematically of
The Picture Book Idea Syndrome
Guest Post by Rob Broder — President and Founder of Ripple Grove Press Rob Broder’s guest post, “You Can Judge a Book by Its Title,
YA: The Dark Place of Children’s Lit
By Almitra Clay “So what is your novel about?” This is the point where I go from smiling to my deer-in-the-headlights grimace. See, I’m not
A Teen’s Take on High School Literature Classes
Guest Post by Sarah Knowles In her post How to Build Better Readers: IMHO… Marti Johnson made the case that assigned reading of classics in
Writing for Computer Games
By Almitra Clay You know how you tell someone you’re a writer and they say, “oh, I have this great idea for a novel,” and
“Every Book Still Kicks My A**” Words of Solidarity from the SCBWI 2015 NY Winter Conference
By Diana Zipeto Dr. Brené Brown, vulnerability researcher, says that in the midst of struggle, the two words we most want to hear are, “Me,
You Can Judge a Book by Its Title, and Other Wisdom from the Submission Pile
GUEST POST by Rob Broder, President & Founder of Ripple Grove Press We have received over 2000 submissions at Ripple Grove Press (RGP) since we
A Twisty Path to Publication–with Dragons
Post #5: Morris Award Finalist Blog Tour Week YALSA’s Morris Award honors the year’s best young adult novel by a debut author. The Morris Award
Revising Your NaNoWriMo Mess-terpiece
By Heather Fenton If you, like me, participated in the highly-focused, highly-caffeinated National Novel Writing Month this past November, hopefully you have a 50,000 word
Illustration Revision in Mariana Ruiz Johnson’s Book, I Know a Bear
By Diana Zipeto Recently, I bought Mariana Ruiz Johnson’s beautiful picture book, I Know a Bear. Published in 2014 by Schwartz & Wade, the book is about
