No Ordinary Girl

Lucy Maud Montgomery is best known for Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, but she also penned a large number of short

The Challenge of Collaborative Writing (When Your Co-Authors Are Your Kids)

For a long time, writing was a solitary experience for me. I wouldn’t allow anyone to read even a portion of my stories until I

It’s Really a Beautiful World

Shortly after the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the five Dallas police officers in July, I wrote: It’s times like these when I

How I Betrayed My Children (While Writing With Them) #KidLit

Children’s book authors like to make kids cry, a tradition that goes back to parricidal folktales and fairytales. L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables

Smoking in Children’s Books: Would a Rating System Help?

In Forsyth v. Motion Picture Association of America, et al., a plaintiff has waged an uphill battle against Hollywood to force films featuring tobacco imagery

The Worst Pick-Up Lines in Literature

Literature is full of awkward attempts at romance. Here are a few of my favorite examples, including two from a certain someone who turns 200-years-old