Sixteen year old Yolanda Dare agreed to take the time to talk with us about herself. Her fashion sense is obvious, as is her intelligence and poise. She’s a junior at Farrington High School in Chicago, and well acquainted with both David Albacore and his rival Malik Kaplan two seniors with big complexes. “What do […]
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Better late than never – I hope – I finally managed to coral David Albacore for a talk. He\’s the narrator and main character in the new book, PULL, being released on October 27. Now eighteen, this young man has proven himself in the schoolyard, basketball court and in a construction yard. He has agreed
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Gender identity may be more than just a state of mind, but there are differences in the way the average boy and the average girl think and view the world. I stress average on purpose. Of course there is overlap. We\’re humans, not guinea pigs, and we are all unique, all fall somewhere on a
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When you’re a female writer who ignored her younger brother and never had a son and you want to write a book that will appeal to male readers, research takes on a whole new meaning. Or maybe that was an advantage. The teenage females and males had to be realistic and they had to be
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Because my debut novel is a first person coming of age and YA romance written entirely from the male\’s POV, I am sometimes asked what the differences are in writing with a male vs female protagonist. To me this goes farther. I wanted not just to write from the guy\’s point of view, but to
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I have served as both judge and contest coordinator in numerous RWA contests for the past three years. I’ve also entered almost a dozen contests. Won two, including the one that brought with it my agent, Andrea Somberg. And was a finalist in two others, including the 2010 Golden Heart. To me, contest judging, and
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