Earlier this week, Founder and Publisher of Tu Books Stacy Whitman collected a list of children’s books about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. It reminded me of Allen Say’s Home of the Brave, and the work I had done as part of my graduate...
Agents and editors want characters that jump off the page… but what if your character prefers to stay home with a book? Juliet, the protagonist of my middle grade mystery Hot Ticket, is clearly an extrovert. She can’t stand that there is a mysterious ticket dispenser...
Kara LaReau is a full-time writer who previously worked as an editor at Candlewick and Scholastic, and founded her own creative consulting company, Bluebird Works. Welcome to the blog, Kara! What was the hardest part about leaving traditional publishing to start...
