Author: Marsha Qualey

Mothers and Daughters

Posted by | Feb 22, 2010 | | 5

Well, it’s happened. Over the weekend I received an email from a teen who said, “My mom says she remembers reading and really liking one of your books when she was in high school.”The math adds up. Fortunately the fact her...

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Carb Crash

Posted by | Feb 14, 2010 | | 12

In January many of us who chime in here spent 11 days at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota at camp for writers. Okay, it was part of an MFA program, but the going-to-camp comparison is apt. We had 11 intense days in...

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Open Eyes

Posted by | Feb 10, 2010 | | 5

This is, I guess, really a continuation of the “process” discussion. My first drafts are always so influenced by the reading and on-the-ground research I do while writing. The smallest thing can steer a book off on a...

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Epigraphs

Posted by | Feb 2, 2010 | | 11

Before the catchy first line there’s (sometimes) an epigraph. I went to the library yesterday and came home with a bag o’ books. Some adult, some YA. Each of the adult novels had an epigraph, but not one of the YAs...

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