Today I'm giving a big welcome to Young Adult novelist, Holly Schindler--my first guest blogger!  Holly is the author of A Blue so Dark...

  Right now I'm reading a great book by New Zealand novelist, Rachel King:   The Sound of Butterflies .  The story is set in 1904 Englan...

"How do I find my voice?  How do I know I'm using the right one?"  Just like the word "style," "voice" can...

Recently I’ve been re-reading my blog posts, and the one thing that stands out for me is how often I use the phrase “Have fun.” “Just have ...

Wouldn't you know, just as soon as I tell you all I plan to blog twice a week, I not only miss that goal entirely, but I then don'...

Six Colleges and Four Girls , my first attempt at making my own altered book, continues--page by page and insight by exciting insight.  So ...

What's your medium?  Two winters back I took a ten-week watercolor class because I thought it would be fun to explore a technique that l...