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Writing YA: I’m not an expert just a mom trying to listen
I am not an expert. When I hear that word ‘expert’ I cringe. What makes a person an expert? Is it their education, their personal experience or all those letters after their name? I am educated,...
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Does Watching the Super bowl Count as Bonding Time?
It’s Super bowl Monday and I suspect half the viewers are dying to get to the office to recount their triumph victory while half are suffering hang-overs of despair. I, however fit a niche still trying...
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Award Winning YA Author Barbara Binns
Today on YA Beyond I have the distinct pleasure of introducing YA author Barbara Binns, who writes hard hitting young adult books that resonate. What did you do with your first book once you finished...
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Guest Author J.L. Bowen
Today I’d like to welcome guest J.L. Bowen to the blog in place of rambling about something myself. J.L. is the author of the young adult novel Healer, from Featherweight Press, a story about a teenage...
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What Do Boys Read?
I was thinking about this, especially after the post here a couple weeks ago on writing with a male voice. And then I read a post on a website that said something along the lines of, “Boys won’t read...
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Is it true?
The other day I had a discussion with a friend and the subject of boys and their mothers came up which led to the question, is a boys behavior toward his mother an indication of how he will treat his...
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Teen-ish Teenagers- Two
A couple weeks ago, I talked about how I’ve seen several books lately that, while called “Young Adult books”, have teenage characters who sound nothing like the teenagers I know–or the teenager I once...
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