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During a recent interview week on the Buzz Blog, fellow Buzz Girl Marley Gibson asked me what made me want to write stories for young adults. My answer at the time? I didn’t. Not consciously, anyway. I just happened to come up with a story idea that needed a high school setting, and OH. MY. […]

Character naming is one of those topics. Some writers take it very seriously, they can’t proceed on a book until they have every name perfect. Others don’t stress too much, preferring to pick the first name that feels right and then diving into the story. I think I’m somewhere in between. I don’t stress about […]

Since so many authors I respect have posted their revision process thoughts–and since I am in the middle of one such revision process at the moment–I’d thought I explain how I go about revising my books. 1. The letter arrives. My editor emails my revision letter, as well as sending the letter and the marked […]