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This guest post was written by Catherine Barter, author of We Played With Fire. The story of the Fox sisters begins in 1848, in a remote farmhouse in western New York State. A bitter, brutal winter and strange rapping sounds heard from…

This guest post was written by Emily Victoria, author of This Golden Flame. To celebrate the release of her page-turning debut YA sci-fi fantasy, This Golden Flame, Emily Victoria opens up about her experiences as an #OwnVoices aroace…

Do you dream of seeing your book on the shelves one day? Rachel Burge, author of bestselling YA novel The Twisted Tree and The Crooked Mask, shares her dos and don'ts to help you get published. Don’t: make your story too…

This guest post was written by Wibke Brueggemann, author of Love is for Losers. When I started writing “Love is for Losers” many years ago, I knew that I wanted to write a lesbian love story, but I also knew that I didn’t want to write a…

This guest post was written by Katharine and Elizabeth Corr, authors of A Crown of Talons. 2020 has probably made many of us long for an escape – it’s a cruel irony that holidays have mostly been impossible. Fortunately, there’s no…

This guest post was written by Brenna Thummler, author and illustrator of Sheets and Delicates. A book is not one fixed story. It is malleable, shaped by each individual reader and their experiences. A character’s emotion, whether it be…

The post below was kindly written by Jenny Oliver, author of Chelsea High. Growing up I was addicted to feel-good popular culture. From Sweet Valley Twins and Jilly Cooper to the eye-opening scenes in Shirley Conran’s Lace that I stole off…

The post below was kindly written by Syed M. Masood, author of More Than Just a Pretty Face. Have you met Muslims? Because I’ve met Muslims—including the one in my mirror—and they are awesome. Well…not all of them, obviously. Some of…

The post below was kindly written by Sam Maggs, author of The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope It used to be the case that, should you want to be a writer, you were stymied by gatekeepers. Wanted to make a comic book? Out of luck unless you…

The post below was kindly written by S.A. Domingo, author of Love on the Main Stage Summer 2020 has been a pretty strange one of course, but with my latest book for younger readers, Love on the Main Stage, my hope is that you’ll find a fun…

The post below was kindly written by Holly Race, author of Midnight's Twins It might seem like an odd choice at first: for an only child to decide to write a trilogy about a pair of twins. But for me, it felt completely natural. I grew up…

The post below was kindly written by Kristin Lamber, author of The Boy in the Red Dress I spent most of my life thinking I was straight. I grew up in a place and religion and time where being straight was not only assumed to be the…

Katie Cotugno places her top five pieces of feminist media into a virtual care package.

The post below was kindly written by Bex Hogan, author of Venom. 2020 isn’t here to play. To quote a certain Jamaican crab, ‘the human world is a mess.’ Countries on fire, wars raging, immigrants imprisoned, refugees abandoned – not to…

The post below was kindly written by Adi Alsaid, author of We Didn't Ask For This. Author’s note: There’s an obvious omission of anything COVID-19 related in my answers below. I still believe all of what I wrote applies in the world of the…