by Jacqueline Jules In a new book, Writing Radar: Using Your Journal To Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories , Jack Gantos shares more tha...

by Jacqueline Jules I have recommended Gary Soto before in a Pencil Tips post about his short story collection, Baseball in April . But...

Susan L. Roth , the award winning author and illustrator of 45 books including Hands Around the Library, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, and The...

by Jane Harrington November is here—leaves are blowing in circles around us, the first logs of the season are being tossed in fireplace...