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NYC Teen Author Festival – Inside The Mind of a Teen Boy

The NYC Teen Author Festival is back this week and last night Will and I went to our neighborhood Barnes & Noble in Tribeca to check out a panel discussion titled “Inside the Mind of a Teen Boy.” Of course, this was particularly interesting to me since I continue to work on my own YA [...]

YA Authors Strut Their Stuff

Yesterday afternoon I took some time and went up to the 67th Street branch of the New York Public Library to attend a reading by five YA authors who took part in this week’s NYC Teen Author Festival. Martin Wilson, author of What They Always Tell Us, was the draw for me since I loved [...]

Good News for Talented Friends

It was quite a day for a few friends and I wanted to share it here for the wider audience. First up, in the news of the day… Martin Wilson, who wrote the excellent What They Always Tell Us, saw his debut novel become a Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Best LGBT Children/Young Adult book. [...]