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A three-sentence review of This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda published by Tor Teen. It’s the mid-1930s and a Japanese-American boy in Washington state begins a pen pal relationship with the [...]

Or: How to not waste your time and money. You wrote a novel! Maybe it’s the next great American novel, maybe it’s your first foray into the writing world, maybe it’s your first contemporary [...]

Three-sentence review of Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis. Published by Katherine Tegen Books This three-sentence review needs only one sentence: Man vs. Nature, but with teenage girl! Given [...]

You’ve written a draft of a novel and you’ve revised enough times to know that your story is pretty awesome. What other things need revision? I’ve got a list of four things to look for. When I [...]

You have finished a first draft! You’ve written a novel! Break out the smoking jacket with the patches on the sleeves. Pipe optional! What to do now, though? Maybe it was easy to write that [...]

A three-sentence review of The Voting Both by Brandy Colbert published by Disney-Hyperion Marva is fired up to vote for the first time; Duke is eager to check a trip to the voting booth off his [...]

Or: Breaking Down Chicago Manual of Style 8.159 In headline-style capitalization, Most Words Are Capitalized. It differs from sentence-style capitalization in which The first [...]