I was reading a YA romance novel set on the coast of Maine. The teen girl woke up at 5am on July 4 to sneak
Author: Marianne Knowles
Marianne Knowles writes picture books, chapter books, and YA, runs an SCBWI critique group, and serves as co-admin for the group blog Writers' Rumpus. By day, she works for the Museum of Science in Boston. An owl once came down her chimney, but it did not bring a Hogwarts admission letter. Marianne is represented by Emily Mitchell of Wernick & Pratt Literary.
Butt in Chair without an Aching Back
This week is our Third Blogiversary! That’s three years of “butt in chair” commitment to writing, illustrating, blogging, and all the other activities that keep
Intentional (RE)Invention: #NESCBWI16
This past weekend I was fortunate to attend the annual spring conference of the New England chapter of SCBWI. This year’s conference theme was “The
You Are Writing the Future
Tomorrow’s do-ers are reading kidlit today. Keep writing! You may have missed it, but this past Friday a rocket returned to Earth and landed on
Practicing Revision with Telescopic Text
Thanks to StumbleUpon, I recently discovered a site that has been around for several years, but it was new to me; perhaps it is new
Amber Glasses: Write Late, Sleep Well
Call it writer’s insomnia: You’re on a roll, writing for hours, late into the night. Finally, exhausted but accomplished, you save your work, back it
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