by Susan Berger 1. Every smiley moon without fail Claire dreamed of her childhood. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (This is a firs...

For those writers among us who are inspired by the rejection letters of the big dogs, here is one of Herman Melville ’s from his British pu...

by Susan Berger (I took these notes at the 2008 BEA Writers Conference. I finished turning my NaNoWriMo novel into a readable first draft. ...

Another in a series of Why I Write by Lupe Fernandez The photo appeared in a book on monster/fantasy films. I can’t remember the book’s ...

by Susan Berger These are the answers to the first lines from the SCBWI Writer’s Day held on Saturday April 10, 2010. 1. The morning aft...