These are blog posts written for Novel Novice by some of our featured authors! (And in a few cases, guest vlogs!)
Lisa Graff: “Writing a Novel (or, My Ode to the Internet)”
Double Dog Dare
S.R. Johannes: “The Challenge of Writing for Tweens”
On the Bright Side; Untraceable
Lisa Schroeder: “Middle Grade Musings”
It’s Raining Cupcakes; Sprinkles & Secrets
April Henry: “Why I Write Thrillers”
The Night She Disappeared; Girl, Stolen
Kelly Keaton: “Notes on a Revision”
Darkness Becomes Her; A Beautiful Evil
S.J. Johannes: “Tough Girls in YA”
Untraceable; On the Bright Side
Cynthia Hand: “Unique Angel Mythology”
Unearthly; Hallowed
Ally Condie: “Artwork in Crossed“
Matched; Crossed
Marie Lu: “The Price of Security”
Legend
Kenneth Oppel: “What’s Really Frightening”
This Dark Endeavor
C.J. Hill: “The Books That Influenced Me”
Slayers
John Corey Whaley: “On Banning Books: A Debut YA Author’s Perspective”
Where Things Come Back
Stasia Ward Kehoe: “How to Write a Kissing Scene”
Audition
Jackson Pearce: “Why You Should Go to College”
As You Wish, Sisters Red, Sweetly
Sonia Gensler: “Why Ghosts?”
The Revenant
Gary Ghislain: “The Book That Did It For Me”
How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend
Myra McEntire: “Thank You, Mrs. Hillman”
Hourglass
John Corey Whaley: “I Know YA Saves”
Where Things Come Back
Rebecca Lim: “On Writing Mercy”
Mercy series
Lisa & Laura Roecker: “The Best & Worst Parts of Being a Writer”
The Liar Society
Kimberly Derting: “The Good Old Days”
The Body Finder; Desires of the Dead
Elizabeth Eulberg: “The Staying Power of Jane Austen”
Prom & Prejudice; The Lonely Hearts Club
Alexander Gordon Smith: “Writing My First Book”
Escape from Furnace series; The Inventors
Inara Scott: “A Few of My Favorite Things”
Delcroix Academy series
Conrad Wesslehoft: “The Wisdom of Scott O’Dell”
Adios, Nirvana
Cinda Williams Chima: “Love Amid Chaos”
The Demon King, The Exiled Queen
Ellen Hopkins: “A Framework for Empowerment”
Crank, Glass, Fallout
Joelle Anthony: “Banned Books Week – There is Hope”
Restoring Harmony
Rebecca Maizel: “Layers of Infinite Days“
Infinite Days
Erin McCahan: “That One Professor …”
I Now Pronounce You Someone Else
Elka Cloke: “Music & Poetry”
Bitter Language
Cassandra Clare: “Clockwork Angel & A Tale of Two Cities“
The Mortal Instruments; The Infernal Devices
Nina Malkin: “Dare to Be Different”
Swoon
Heidi R. Kling: “Pursuing Your Dreams”
Sea
Kimberly Pauley: “What I Love About Being an Author”
Sucks to Be Me; Still Sucks to Be Me
Helen Ellis: “Reading is My Security Blanket”
The Turning: What Curiosity Kills
Lisa Schroeder: “Verse Novels for the Reluctant Reader”
I Heart You, You Haunt Me; Far From You; Chasing Brooklyn; It’s Raining Cupcakes
Elizabeth Eulberg: “Never Give Up, Never Surrender”
The Lonely Hearts Club
Authors: If you’d like to write a guest blog for us, or be featured on Novel Novice, please e-mail sara.novelnovice@comcast.net
