by Martina Boone | Oct 18, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding...
by Martina Boone | Oct 11, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
Readers have uncanny timing. Whenever I feel like I hit a writing (or publishing) wall, I inevitably get a note from someone who gets the books, or connected with the books, or needed something in one of the books, or just plain loves the books, and that reminds me...
by Martina Boone | Oct 4, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
So last weekend, I was in Boston hanging out with Erin Cashman — which was AMAZING, and we are up to shenanigans for the future. Be warned. But I was also up there for the Boston Teen Book Festival. It was huge. Huge. So many fantastic authors, and tons of great...
by Martina Boone | Sep 20, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
A book is like baking a cake. It doesn’t come out frosted straight out of the oven. Most aspiring writers will never start writing the book they’ve been dreaming of writing. Even fewer will finish writing the book they begin to write. Fewer still will do...
by Martina Boone | Sep 13, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
Even plot driven books are about the characters. That seems so obvious when you think about it, doesn’t it? But it’s easy to forget that the plot is there to push the characters, not the other way around. Even in the highest concept books. And guess what?...
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