You can hear me rave about it with Ariel Bissett, one of my favorite people ever here: Ĭan you read my manuscript/query and tell me what you think?Īs much as I'd love to help all aspiring writers, I can't. It's a puzzle and you are both the solver of that puzzle and the maker of it.

It will help you as a writer a lot more than you think.

Also: volunteer for something you care about. After a decade living self-sufficiently and teaching literacy to adults in Ireland, she now lives in Pennsylvania. She is a faculty member of the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and spends many months of the year traveling the country speaking to high school and university students, educators, and humans who care about the mental health of young people. Edwards Award for her significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. She also writes Middle Grade fiction as Amy Sarig King, including Attack of the Black Rectangles. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz among others.

Printz Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist DIG, 2016's Still Life with Tornado, 2015’s surrealist I Crawl Through It, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, Reality Boy, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, 2011 Michael L. writers working today” by the New York Times Book Review. King is the author of highly-acclaimed novels including 2021's SW/TCH, 2020 Michael L. King has been called “One of the best Y.A.

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