Musings of a Novelista

In the SLJ Teen newsletter, I found out that the The William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalists have been announced.

According the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) website:
“The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new [...]

If you’ve been following the latest publishing news, you know that Kirkus Reviews is closing its doors. This is yet another result of the economy more or less.
I’ve always known Kirkus to review all types of books from both small and big publishing houses. I also remember how some of my writer friends had [...]

I just got out of meeting at the day job, but before I delve into all things techy geeky, I wanted to drop a quick post about some interesting articles I’ve found about YA audiences.
With the first article, I got the heads up from writer friend,Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of the forthcoming, Eight Grade SuperZero (which [...]

I usually don’t blog on the weekends, but here I am at the fabulous Main Library up the street from my house. I’m working on creating a spreadsheet to help me with my revision process (I’ll share that in an upcoming post).
Anyway, of course the library has Internet access and so I felt the need [...]

I just got out of LONG early morning meeting and before I start on my journey of continuing to learn this new skill for my job, I read an interesting post, In Good Company by good writer friend Paula Chase.
She was talking about the reality of having a full time job and balancing it with [...]