Learn about World within Words: Writing and the Writing Life.
When I talk to my students about point of view and plot action and their relationship, I find myself musing about how we humans really work.
Things happen to us and around us seemingly simultaneously: we receive stimuli (things and people act in our world),
Shari Schwarz is the first-time author of Treasure at Lure Lake
(Cedar Fort, 2016). From the promotional copy:
An epic adventure—that’s all Bryce wants this summer.
So when he stumbles upon a treasure map connected to an old family secret,
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Browse-able Excerpt from Epic Reads
I.W. Gregorio is the first-time author of None of the Above (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, 2015). From the promotional copy:
What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant?
When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen,
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New Adult Covers
Just as the difference between a middle grade story and a young adult story is more than the characters’ ages and grades in school, the difference between a young adult story and a new adult story is more than the characters’ ages and their graduation from high school.
