While there are a lot of children’s and young adult books with terrible fathers. the biggest challenge facing fictional children is dead or missing ones. Forget the single parent crisis in the real world; try being a fictional kid. These guys suffer mightily from what some editors and agents call “dead parent syndrome,” – the […]
It’s another Road Trip Wednesday, and I’m on the road with the good folks of YA Highway. Today’s question: Who in your life has most inspired your writing? Well, that’s both easy and a little bit hard. I mean, when I’m writing YA hot and heavy romance I can’t help thinking of the Husband, […]
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Most of us are familiar with the Yin Yang symbol (and some of us doodled it endlessly on our jeans and Chuck Taylors in an attempt to seem emo and soulful, and maybe sought out tee shirts and cheap silver jewelry emblazoned with it…but I digress). A Taoist symbol, it represents, in brief, complementary opposites. […]
Today’s YA Highway Roadtrip: What books were you obsessed with as a kid? Where to start? Dude, the mind boggles at the sheer volume. I was an avid reader, and an even more avid re-reader. To this day, the Sister and I have a category of books called Cheerios Books: books that we can pick […]
For everyone who doesn’t know that a cobra escaped the Bronx Zoo, not to worry. You can now follow him on Twitter. Bwahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha! Bronx Zoo’s Cobra (BronxZoosCobra) on Twitter. And then there’s the zookeeper: http://twitter.com/#!/BronxZookeeper This is just one of many reasons I love New York.
