How Facebook Groups Have Helped Me with My Fiction

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 jugglers

Article Pitches that Sold to Magazines & Newspapers

Pitching an article is an art-form. Make sure the topic you’re pitching checks one or more of these boxes: Is the topic new, or treated in a new way? Is the topic relevant to readers of that specific publication? Is the topic surprising? Here are three of my pitches that recently sold. Sold to The

Graphic Novels and Nonfiction Totally Rock!

A middle-school teacher told me recently that he doesn’t allow graphic novels in his classroom. He explained that they’re fine for kids to read at home, but he doesn’t consider them “literature.” I beg to differ. Have you read Jen Wang’s gorgeously-illustrated graphic novel, The Prince and the Dressmaker? It’s an absolutely captivating modern-day fairytale