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My challenge lay in writing a novel set in a dystopian real world, Communist Czechoslovakia in 1969, that was 20 years away from liberation…and still offer hope to the reader.
In D&D, the Rule of Cool is about creative problem solving, it’s about encouraging players to think outside the box, and embrace what isn’t text, but subtext. It rewards imagination. It rewards approaching the game with an unexpected perspective.
Disaster MCs can frustrate — or even exasperate — readers precisely because they seem to make the same mistakes repeatedly. So why do we write them? I talked to four of my fellow debut authors, and here’s what they had to say.
I want Jewish kids to read the book and see their traditions, their jokes and their references, their food and their songs. I want them to feel recognized, and like they matter.
Everyone knows you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. But everyone does it. Especially in middle school. When I was in middle school I was obsessed with my proverbial cover.
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.
THE REAL DEAL is a story about grief and coping and hope. It’s a story about connections, the ones we refuse to give up and the new ones we are brave enough to create. It’s an ode to the things that bring us joy.
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.
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