Okay, You’ve Finished a Novel — What Now?
I started querying in May with an amazing event put on by a middle-grade group I'm a part of on Twitter. They ran a series of educational Zooms educating everyone…
Where Are All the Middle Grade Science Fiction School Series?
Hogwarts. Camp Half-Blood. The Bureau of Magical Affairs. The School for Good and Evil. Wundrous Society. Mystwick School of Musicraft. Avalon Academy. The universe of middle-grade books is rife with…
Somewhat Successful Ways to Get Kids and Tweens off of Screens
Part of my reason for writing my upper middle-grade novel Future Me was to touch on the relationship between kids and technology and how complicated it is. While writing about…
I Participated in My First Twitter Pitch Last Week
I've pitched before. Once, my wife and I got up in front of studio executives and ran through our story for a feature script. I've also been in rooms with…
5 Middle Grade Books Publishing in 2023 That I’m Excited About
For me, the biggest hurdle to discovering new middle-grade books I'm interested in reading is just that -- discovering them. Quite simply, there are a lot of books out there,…
How Many Origin Stories Does It Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?
As I near the end of the first draft of my first novel, it seemed like a good time to look back at where it all began. And because I…