Originally published at Possible Impossibilities. You can comment here or there.

One of the reasons I wrote Half a Person was to depict the kind of suburban life I knew growing up. The neighborhood street represented a kind of freedom when I was younger - my friends and I ruled the block with our banana-seat bikes. But as I grew older, it became a ( Read more... )

Originally published at Possible Impossibilities. You can comment here or there.

Before I published Half a Person as an ebook, it was my Master of Fine Arts thesis, a novel called Sliver of Light. As part of the thesis project, I was required to write a statement of influences. Among the works I cite: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García ( Read more... )

Originally published at Possible Impossibilities. You can comment here or there.

According to the agents Publishers Weekly spoke to for this article on new trends in young adult fiction, dystopian and paranormal novels are dead and agents are looking to sign realistic novels. This is of interest to me because I have been trying to write more ( Read more... )