2026 Summer Blog Series: Barbara Carroll Roberts
June 30, 2026
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We have to pay attention to the world around us, because it’s through specific, intentional details that our writing comes alive.
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2026 Summer Blog Series: Gary D. Schmidt
June 23, 2026
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When St. Augustine was working on his De Rhetorica, he began by trying to define what words are — not a bad place to start. He concluded that words are signs of real things.
2026 Summer Blog Series: Tracey Baptiste
June 16, 2026
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From Tracey Baptiste: First, you need to experience a lot of stories … To learn, you need to pay attention to the details.
2026 Summer Blog Series: V.T. Bidania
June 9, 2026
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You never know the impact your work might have on others.
2026 Summer Blog Series: Nikki Grimes
June 2, 2026
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When it comes to telling our own stories, it’s crucial that we learn to tell them in our own way …
Summer Blog Series 2026
May 26, 2026
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At almost all of these school author visits, a young person will raise a hand and ask a variant of this question: “What advice can you give so I can become a writer?”
Word of the Day
May 19, 2026
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Merriam-Webster’s daily blog “Word of the Day” is one that this writer finds much in which to delight. It’s not often I discover a new word. But now and again I do.
In Quest of the Perfect Book
May 12, 2026
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Many years ago, when I was just starting out as a writer, someone gave me this advice: “If you want to live as a writer, you need to be able to do two things …
Series
May 5, 2026
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While browsing the other day in a used book store, I saw a Nero Wolfe mystery paperback. To see that book in the bookstore was like running into old friends. Which is, I think, the great attraction of series books.
Words
April 28, 2026
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As a writer using the English language, I have only the 26 letters of the alphabet to compose my books. On the other hand, there are an estimated six hundred thousand words (!) in the English language from which I can choose.