I’ll confess: I wrote my first Young Adult novel by accident.
I wasn’t new to writing. For close to a quarter of a century I’d been a writing “apprentice” in the truest sense of the word. I had boxes of scribbles, drafts and old journals stacked in the basement. Plenty of essays, articles and stories … some published, some not A little bona fide writing income of various sorts. But no book. No complete work of fiction, with a beginning, middle and end.
Then, I heard her voice.
This fourteen-y…
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Posted on October 7, 2009 at 8:54am — Comment