2025 Summer Blog Series: Karen Cushman
Sure, we can visit classrooms, chat online, and answer fan mail, but I think the most important thing we writers can do „,
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2025 Summer Blog Series: Dan Gutman
“I tell them this — If you read something you’re interested in, you’ll get interested in reading.”
2025 Summer Blog Series: Avi
For this summer’s blog series, I’ve asked other writers, “What is your favorite strategy for encouraging young people to read?” Here’s my answer.
Summer Blog Series: Pedro Martin
I come from a huge family. Eleven, plus my grandfather. So whenever we would get together to trade stories, there were usually twelve sides to every story.
Summer Blog Series: Janet Wong
The general idea to do a funny book came to me during a writer’s workshop. The writers in the room wanted to know my answer to the question, “What kinds of books need to be published nowadays? What should we be writing?”
Summer Blog Series: Gordon Korman
Let me say this first: I’m not a criminal. I don’t have a dishonest bone in my body. But I got the idea for Faker when I started wondering: What happens when fate forces ordinary people to break the law?
Summer Blog Series: Caroline Starr Rose
Here’s a little secret. I love to write, but it’s not always easy. Sometimes writing a book feels like an impossible task. When that happens, I stop using the “w” word entirely.
Summer Blog Series: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
You might, or might not, love words. And you might, or might not, know it. Words that are delicious alone. Words that fit together like a puzzle. Words that say something to soothe your heart or make you think or make you laugh out loud.
Summer Blog Series: Bruce Coville
“One of the most common questions I get in school visits is, ‘How long does it take to write a book?’ … I think the truest answer is that the time it takes to write a story is how old you were when you finished writing it.”
Summer Blog Series: Karen Cushman
Ideas are like Legos. One is just a plastic block but put many together, and you have a castle or a ship — or a story.
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