Board Games We Love to Promote Reading and Storytelling
I've mentioned before that my wife and I are both writers. What I haven't really dug into is the fact that, though both read quite well for their ages, our…
Reasons You Maybe Shouldn’t Stress Out Quite So Much Over Your Kids’ Screen Time
Yes, I recently wrote a post about finding ways -- any way! -- to get your kids off of screens. So why am I now saying, "Eh, it's not so…
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…