Inspiration – Page 27 – WRITERS' RUMPUS

Past or Present? Learn Which Tense is Best for Your Narration

March 15, 2022 Laura Fineberg Cooper

If you google VERB TENSE, you’ll find lists ranging from 12 to 16 confusing forms. Fortunately, writers of middle grade and young adult literature only

Imaginary, by Lee Bacon

February 15, 2022 Laura Fineberg Cooper

IMAGINARY, written by Lee Bacon and illustrated by Katy Wu, is poignant, humorous, and sheer delight from start to finish. Released in October 2021, this early middle grade novel is centered around eleven-year-old Zack, who still hasn’t recovered from his father’s death five years earlier. Zack’s only solace is to retreat into his imagination with his imaginary best friend Shovel. If you think the narrator is Zach, guess again.

This Last Adventure, By Ryan Dalton

February 11, 2022 Hilary Elizabeth Margitich

To Austin For all the reasons you forgot From those who remember This is the dedication at the front of Ryan Dalton’s beautiful new middle

Interview with Nancy Tandon, debut author of THE WAY I SAY IT

January 18, 2022 Laura Fineberg Cooper

“I can’t say my name. Not because it’s a secret or anything. Honestly I’d shout it into a microphone right now if I could. I’d give up anything to be able to do that. Even my guitar-playing fingertip calluses, which took like a million hours to get. The first half-million hours hurt. A lot.”