Just for a fun Friday Five, I thought I'd pick five places that particular books made me want to visit. By next week, if this is the "new" Friday meme, we'll know that my plans to take over the www (writer web world) are finally beginning to come to fruition!...

In a child's life, the difference a year can make in their appearance, their progress, their abilities is amazing, but also very apparent. When you're an adult, maybe not so much. Unless you're a writer! The novel I am revisiting is one I wrote last spring. I thought...

Meg Cabot has an interesting post on her blog today about books and age appropriateness. You have to scan down a bit to the middle to find the part I'm talking about. It's funny, but as soon as someone mentions whether or not a kid should be reading a book with sex in...

I'm going to spend some time with a novel that needs a revision, but I'm also doing a side project. Somehow I ended up on The Highlights Foundation email list and every so often they send me "A writing tip from [someone famous]". A few months ago, the tip was from...

1. Even the very serious teen books usually have lots of humor, angst about fashion, and boy trouble. So much adult fiction is about stuff you read about in women's magazines or the newspapers: depression, unemployment, and cheating spouses. I'm sixteen at heart, so...

If you skip down a couple of posts, you'll see the one about photographers posting daily pictures of where they live. I told author Cynthia Lord about it because her husband takes beautiful photos. Well, she loved the idea so much that she has asked writers to post...

Young Adult Chick-lit is usually hit or miss with me. I either love it or toss it aside after just a few pages. Because of that, I never really saw myself writing it. However, a few months ago, I'd been reading some I loved and I got my own idea for not just a book,...