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I was listening to a radio program that was debating various careers that were related to children. One of the guests stated that, considering children are the future (sorry, not my choice of cliches!), it's pretty astonishing that jobs to do with…

Whenever I'm on the faculty of a conference or I do a school visit, or even just in casual conversation, people will often express their burning desire to be published. The conversation will often go something like this (let's call…

"Yo," the first twenty-something said to the other. "Audio books are like, how lazy do you have to be to listen to a book?" I was dying to ask this guy why he was so angry at audio books.…

Pink, on a twirly acrobatic thingy, singing a stunningly heartrending song, spinning, singing and NOT barfing all at the same time is pretty amazing. http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrainBurps

...is critiquing a story with amazing potential. And the bonus is when the writer really hears and then LISTENS and makes the changes that makes it go from a story with potential to a publishable manuscript. Receiving a crit…