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Eva Langston

10 Simple Plot Exercises You Need to Do BEFORE You Write Your Novel!

Interview with writer and environmental journalist Rachel Sarah, author of GIRL WARRIORS: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth.

Writing to Save the Earth: An Interview with Rachel Sarah

in Interviews, Writing, YA & MG Posts on 09/12/21

I connected recently with writer Rachel Sarah, like one does these days, through a writers’ facebook group, and the more I learned about her career, the more impressed I became. She started out, at the age of twenty-one, as a journalist in the Czech Republic. She then earned her journalism degree from The New School in New York City, became… View Post

Kidlit Genres Explained: Middle Grade, YA, New Adult, & More

in Children's Literature Study, Writing, YA & MG Posts on 08/16/21

Please, please, please, before my head explodes, will everyone please stop calling The Giver a YA book? I don’t know why this offends me so much except for the fact that The Giver is SO CLEARLY a middle grade novel. The protagonist is twelve. The word count is 43,600. It is commonly assigned to middle schoolers. All kidlit genre indicators… View Post

Tips for Writing YA Contemporary in a COVID world

7 Ways to Make Your YA Contemporary Manuscript Seem Current (even in these COVID times)

in Writing, YA & MG Posts on 08/07/21

Recently I finished revising a YA Contemporary novel I wrote a few years back. I was excited for about five minutes. Then I freaked out. I’m forty years old. What the heck do I know about “kids these days”?  Plus there’s COVID to consider, which makes writing contemporary fiction all the more complicated. Should I do another revision, putting my characters… View Post

Lish McBride interview

Interview with YA Fantasy Author, Lish McBride (From 2014)

in Interviews, YA & MG Posts on 05/27/21

Recently I happened upon this interview with YA author Lish McBride, which I published back in 2014 on my old website. A lot has happened since then, obviously.  At the time, Lish’s third YA fantasy book, Firebug, was about to come out, and now Lish has written and published two more YA novels: a sequel to Firebug, called Pyromantic, and,… View Post

10 query tips for querying literary agents

Querying Literary Agents? 10 QUERY TIPS You May Not Know

in Writing on 03/15/21

**Updated December 2021** I recently met with highly successful literary agent Fiona Kenshole of Transatlantic Agency, and she gave me some query tips that truly blew my mind. I am, unfortunately, no stranger to the query game; I thought by this point I knew everything about writing query letters. As it turns out, I had more to learn. There are… View Post

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