MENTAL HEALTH FOR WRITERS

The theme of the SCBWI-Carolinas fall conference in Charlotte this past weekend was “Oh, the Places We’ll Go.”  And where I went was away from my computer screen, out of my hole, my busy-ness, my stale state of mind, and my writer’s block and...

THE AGENT GAME

For the past several months, in between teaching and family commitments, I’ve been hot on the agent pursuit with my YA novel written in verse and set in the sixties, two factors that immediately distance me from all those dystopian-paranormal-urban...