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Author to Author: Marissa Price and Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Author to Author: Marissa Price and Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Writers have their own unique paths, but oftentimes, there are commonalities that impact all who endeavor to put words on the page. Australian author Marissa Price and American author Melissa Holbrook Pierson touch on some of the universal challenges of being a writer– like finding time to create and staving off “impostor syndrome.” They also discuss the particular joy of being lost– and found– in a good story, regardless of whether one is reading it or writing it. Marissa Price:…

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These 2018 Young Adult debuts are defying and redefining literary genres

These 2018 Young Adult debuts are defying and redefining literary genres

by Katya de Becerra My earliest childhood memories are of bookshelves. Growing up, I was the type of girl who could often be seen with her nose buried deep inside a book. As far as my early reading preferences went, I was voracious: reading The Martian Chronicles during breakfast, then skimming through some school-assigned Russian classic at lunch, before at last disappearing into one of Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories in the evening. Back then, I didn’t categorize books as being…

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