Don’t underestimate the power and generosity of like-minded strangers around the world! Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! This season, I’ve been poring over boxes and boxes of my great-grandparents’ promotional photographs and posters and programs from their decades as comedians and wire-walking jugglersContinue reading “How Facebook Groups Have Helped Me with My Fiction”
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Fan Mail, Hate Mail & When to Respond to Both
Life got a bit bananas late last month when CNN decided to feature my story about combatting book bans with novel-writing, Little Free Libraries, and an inflatable T-rex costume. I learned so much from this adventure. First, always ask to see the footage as it’s being filmed, so that the lighting set up doesn’t make you lookContinue reading “Fan Mail, Hate Mail & When to Respond to Both”
A New Season of Diverse Children’s/YA Literature!
Last Sunday, I moderated a panel at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Fall Tradeshow. Titled “What’s Next: Children’s/YA Books to Celebrate Diversity and Empathy,” it included Fall and Spring Season previews of new releases that had me longing to drop my microphone and sprint to Powell’s Books. I wanted to share with you some of theContinue reading “A New Season of Diverse Children’s/YA Literature!”
Gay Dads: It’s about Damned Time!
I grew up in the 1980s with two mothers. (I had a dad and stepmother, too, but that’s a different story.) In vain, I searched for middle-grade novels that reflected families like mine. But they simply didn’t exist. Today, middle school readers have Holly Goldberg Sloan’s and Meg Wolitzer’s absolutely charming To Night Owl fromContinue reading “Gay Dads: It’s about Damned Time!”
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