David R Slayton & Ghost Dragon David R Slayton grew up, as he puts, in a town where Norman Rockwell meets the Twilight Zone. That town was Guthrie, Oklahoma—and it’s place where finding fantasy novels was challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. So what else to do but write your…
Tag: young adult
One Little Dialogue Tip
I’m here with a quick tip for writing dialogue. It’s nothing new, but it really grabbed me this time around. It’s something I noticed while reading Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. It’s a stirring book, and yeah, it’s Thomas’s first novel. Twenty-five hundred reviews on Amazon; five solid stars. Praise is pouring in from…
Meet the WOTY Finalist: Mandy Mikulencak
For all that is good and holy in the world, what possessed you to become an author? Possessed is a great word to use! It almost felt as if I had no choice in the matter. I’d been a writer and editor in the nonprofit sector for almost two decades but had never written fiction….
Rocky Mountain Writer #88
Denise Vega – Writing for Teens and Toddlers An interview with award-winning Denise Vega, who writes for teens and toddlers. Denise talks about what inspired her to write for young adults, how she keeps current with the world of teenagers, and how she draws from her own high school experience for the right emotional connections….