Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. When I was a kid, I would begin designing my costume on the day after Halloween. Everything had to be built with cardboard, duct tape, markers, construction paper, yarn, and whatever else we had around the house. A big challenge for me was integrating the candy bag into [...]
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Oct 16, 2007
|Above World, Jade Tiger, Writing
One of the tasks I find most challenging when writing a novel is changing the time scale. So far in Above World, only a few minutes or a few hours pass during each chapter. The shortest chapter details the events of five minutes or so, while the longest might cover half a day. I try [...]
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Oct 1, 2007
|Above World, Writing
I’ve been calling Above World my “YA mermaid book” for so long, that it only occurred to me last week that it’s actually Middle Grade, not Young Adult. I find myself strangely pleased by this discovery. I never really read any YA when I was growing up, but I devoured every single Newberry book I [...]
Read More ...The latest issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is now online. Part IV: Autumn contains a reprint of my story “Memree,” which first appeared in Polyphony 4. Here’s what the editors say about this issue, the last of 2007: . . . you’ll find fiction by Forrest Aguirre, Michael Jasper, Yoon Ha Lee, Timothy S. Miller, and [...]
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