My first SCBWI meeting
Do you SCBWI? I do. Okay, I just went to my first meeting out in Madisonville, La.on Saturday. I had no idea what to expect, so I did the most logical thing I could think …
Tag: writing journey
Write? Get an accountability partner.
As writers, many of us want the same things. We want to get published. We want that feeling of knowing we have completed something that many others dream of. While on our writing journeys, many …
An agent? For me? Pinch me!
Breaking news: Today, this happened: https://twitter.com/Jen_Corkill/status/753460845682696193 It’s true! I now have an agent, and I think we fit together fabulously well. I feel so blessed and fortunate to have hit such a huge milestone in …
Won’t you be my (bookshelf) neighbor?
This week on Twitter, I had a super brief conversation (after all, it is Twitter) in which I agreed that having diversity simply for the sake of diversity in literature is an epic fail. To …
On writing diverse children's books
The We Need Diverse Books folks have done a great job of making one thing clear: We do, in fact, need diverse books. They have their reasons and their mission, and I’m all for it. …