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  • "I Had No Choice But to Write It" The 2020 Weston Prize Finalists on the Power & Pleasure of Nonfiction
    "I Had No Choice But to Write It" The 2020 Weston Prize Finalists on the Power & Pleasure of Nonfiction
    November 09, 2020

    "I Had No Choice But to Write It" The 2020 Weston Prize Finalists on the Power & Pleasure of Nonfiction

    As creative nonfiction continues to evolve as a genre and authors find themselves sharing more of their own personal stories as well as traditional research and analysis, we see nonfiction growing to ...

  • What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Becoming a Children's Book Creator?
    What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Becoming a Children's Book Creator?
    February 18, 2020

    What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Becoming a Children's Book Creator?

    I’ve worked in children’s publishing for nearly fifteen years and I’ve been writing children’s books for about five years. All this to say, I learned a lot about the realities of publishing children’s ...

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