by Diana Renn | Mar 17, 2014 | Erin Cashman, Kerri Majors, My Writing Process Blog Tour, The Exceptionals, the writing process, This is Not a Writing Manual, YARN
So last week I participated in the My Writing Process Blog Tour (you can read my post here if you missed it), and as promised, this week, right here on this blog, I’m hosting the fabulous Erin Cashman as part of the same tour! (And be sure to check out the other...
by Diana Renn | Mar 10, 2014 | Cold Case, Erin Cashman, Julia Platt Leonard, Kerri Majors, My Writing Process Blog Tour, The Exceptionals, the writing process, This is Not a Writing Manual, YARN
There’s nothing like a writing assignment to shake the dust off the old blog!I’ve been invited by fellow kidlit mystery writer Julia Platt London to be part of the My Writing Process blog tour. I loved Julia’s intense, fast-paced, high-stakes middle...
by Diana Renn | Dec 23, 2013 | Ned Vizzini, Strike a Chord, YARN
One of the perks to my gig as Fiction Editor at YARN is working with some established authors. We approach published YA authors routinely and ask if we can shake a story out of them. Or an essay. Or a poem. It’s wonderful to publish teenage and emerging writers...
by Diana Renn | Apr 3, 2013 | Kate Burak, Kerri Majors, National Poetry Month, poem a day project, YARN
I rarely write poems. Okay, I never do. I used to, many years ago, and I don’t know what happened, why the poetry ideas dried up. I love reading poems, but I think somewhere along the way my ideas started talking to me in full-on sentences, and paragraphs...
by Diana Renn | Feb 26, 2013 | AWP, AWP Conference 2013, Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things, Figment, Kathryn Burak, Paper Lantern Lit, Sucker Literary Magazine, Tokyo Heist, YARN, Young Adult Review Network
Here’s some news . . . I’ve taken on a new job as of this month, exchanging my writing hat for an editing hat! (I like to change hats every once in awhile. Even though hats make my hair look terrible, and really I don’t look good in any hats at...
by Diana Renn | Feb 28, 2012 | Japan, Japanese Teens, Tomo, Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, YARN
Have you heard about Tomo? It’s one of my most anticipated Spring reads. Tomo is an anthology of Young Adult short fiction, verse, and graphic art, all set in or related to Japan. It releases 3/11/12, the anniversary of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami...
