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Genre Gateway Books for Kids

…I remember being totally freaked out reading Wait Til Helen Comes, and my eldest had the same experience.  And if your kids like that, then check out Jane Emily by…

Meet the Team #5onFri—Favorite Books

…of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. I think a love for a good book is like a marriage. Sure, you might get swept off your feet at first, or you might…

Writing SMART Goals

…Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. This article by Emily Esposito gives us a great foundation. Specific Esposito recommends asking the classic six W questions of journalism: What, Who, When, Where, Which,…

#5onFri: Five Book Cover Trends from 2021

…decision point between illustrated, realistic or graphics images. Romance, in particular, has increasingly animated its characters (see Talia Hibbert, Emily Henry, Lucy Parker, and Farrah Rochon’s cover examples).  Compare that…

#5onFri: Five Ways Famous Writers Coped With Failure

…or Emily Dickinson’s poetry as experiments. They were innovative, they changed poetry forever, but they are not considered ‘experimental.’ Ditto with The Waste Land and H.D.’s poetry. The metafictionists and…

#5OnFri: 5 Resolutions from the DIY MFA Team

…writing, writing and more writing. Here’s how we’re getting started! Writing Resolutions from the DIY MFA Team Emily: I Resolve to Complete the First Drafts for Two Novels To make…

Writing By Reading

…effect good writing has on me. It’s as if my body is a ringing bell. Emily Dickinson wrote about poetry taking the top of her head off; poetry reducing her…

April 2023 Leisure Learning: Friends, Foes, & Infamy

…find something to relate to in this worthwhile compilation.  A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma…