These are the virtues I have always admired and aspired to. I have searched for these virtues in selecting my friends and my associates. I w...

Am I the only reader who detests fiction series? All right - not all series. Not completed series that astound me by how well thought-out th...

Sometimes so much happens in a month that it's hard to remember to write about it here. May was that sort of month. Between talking to r...

I love getting letters from readers (of all ages) and I always reply. However, it breaks my heart when I get a letter, as I recently did, th...

We writers tend to look at our work and our process as the most important thing in our lives. We read books about writing, about specific te...

When ebooks became the new trend, I wasn't really sure how they'd go. Would teens and middle graders really want to read books on th...

Writers like to talk about the first draft, and then the excitement (or the torture) of revision. But for me there's a pretty major step...

Over the years, my book buying habits have changed. I used to walk into a bookstore, eager to spend the next hour or two browsing, actually ...

I was very touched when I heard Marion Dane Bauer's story about not properly celebrating her Newbery Honor win for On My Honor . And I...

No matter what the Today Show thinks, January is the time for the children's and teens' lit community to reward writers and illustra...