I’ve only been doing it for a year, but I love that I can rest my mind for a short period of time every day. What’s an activity unrelated to writing that you love?
I admire those of you who actually enjoy edits. My first drafts are ALWAYS super messy, and I think they should be that way! For me it’s a struggle sometimes to get the story out of my head and onto the page in the right way. What’s the hardest part of writing for you? That first spark of a new idea is so exciting! Of creating an outline and then realizing it can become a real book.
I read pretty much every genre, but love to write YA Historical and Contemporary.Ī lot of my friends write adult mysteries but I read so many of those when I was younger that now I rarely pick up an adult book.
I love thrillers and mysteries, and I’m beginning to love fantasy (because a lot of my friends write it!). Now for the fun stuff! What’s your favorite genre? Do you read what you write? IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Book Depository Recently picked by the American Library Association for the 2020 Amelia Bloomer List for best Feminist Fiction in children’s literature and received the 2020 Gold Medal for Historical Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. But when she discovers her love of medicine, she will defy her family and work with a female doctor to care for those building the Golden Gate Bridge. In 1936 San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Willa MacCarthy is bound for the convent. We sat next to each other during an all-day editing intensive workshop at the SCBWI Winter Conference in 2016, and let’s just say that by the end of the day, we were friends! I hope to see her in person the next time my husband and I visit his family in Arizona! Her second novel, Across a Broken Shore, was a Winter 2020 JLG selection.Īmy is one of my few writer friends who first I met in person and THEN connected with online. Please help me give a big Hoosblog welcome to Amy Trueblood!Īmy Trueblood grew up in Southern California only ten minutes from Disneyland which sparked an early interest in storytelling. Fueled by iced tea and a good Spotify playlist, you can often find Amy settled in a quiet corner at her local coffee shop plotting her next book. Her debut, Nothing But Sky, was a Spring 2018 Junior Library Guild selection.
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