Diverse Books Opinion
Reading and I didn’t have a great start. Writing and I have an even more complicated history.
Write what you know does not mean writing about the surface stuff of our lives; it means writing what your heart knows. And sometimes our hearts lie to us.
My books are about characters finding a place to belong where they can be exactly, wholly, unabashedly themselves.
The authors talk about their shared love of nonfiction and their new books.
I had no intention of writing a children's book set against the pandemic. None. And yet, and yet...I felt compelled. Ultimately, I surrendered to the impossible and set out to write Garvey in the Dark.
Historical fiction helps [kids] see that the past is closer to the present than they ever imagined, that the lives of people who lived long ago are not so different from their own.
Unfettered, fearless writing doesn’t just break or make new molds; it is so confident that it reshapes those molds into sturdy bridges that allows readers of all backgrounds to walk across safely.
At nearly every school visit some kid will ask me, “How long does it take to write a book?”To really talk about how long it takes to write a book, one must decide what “writing” is, and when the process begins.
In my years of research, I’ve discovered not only factual events and persons who literally changed the course of society as we know it today, but also something far greater and more personal to my well-being: a connection to a world I never felt a part of.
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