Dear Younger Me,

Friday, April 30, 2021
I often have the wonderful opportunity of interviewing authors, and a question I enjoy asking is: Do you have advice for your younger self when it comes to making decisions, believing in yourself, and/or writing? What would your current self say to the younger you?Even if you aren't a writer, that's a great question to ask yourself regularly. I find that giving this the thought it deserves helps...
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Good News/ Bad News

Thursday, April 29, 2021
Have you ever been faced by the good news/bad news question? Like when your first-born kid walks in the door and says, “I’ve got good news and bad news. Which do you want first?” I always say give me the bad news first (“I flunked the Algebra test”). I like to have something positive to end the discussion/encounter on a high note ("But almost the whole class flunked it"). Granted, that’s not...
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Flash Fiction Contest Tips: Conclusions

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Hello WOW Readers! I have been one of the first-tier contest judges for WOW’s quarterly flash fiction contest for over a decade, and it has been a huge pleasure to read your stories. I am writing this blog series on Flash Fiction Contest Tips to help you strengthen your flash writing and maybe even place in one of our contests! Tips are based on our scoring criteria and craft trends I’ve seen throughout...
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Interview with Shala Alert: 2020 Fall Flash Fiction Contest Runner Up

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Shala’s Bio: Shala Alert is a Jamaican living with her husband and three children in Trinidad. She has an MPhil in literatures in English and has lectured in literature at the university level. She has also taught English to high school students. Her love of literature started very early in life, and it has never let her go. With that love came the desire to write her own stories. Shala also...
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SIns of Our Mothers Blog Tour and Giveaway

Monday, April 26, 2021
We are excited to be back with Nicole Souza and announce the blog tour of her dystopian fiction book Sins of Our Mothers. Join us as we interview the author, highlight upcoming spots on the blog tour, and giveaway a copy of her book. First, here is a little bit about Sins of Our Mothers:It has been fifteen hundred years since the solar flare devastation of the Global Catastrophe....
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Children’s Nonfiction: What Are You Writing?

Sunday, April 25, 2021
When I get a new student in my nonfiction writing class, one of the first things I ask them is what they are writing. I don’t mean it as a trick question, but there are a lot of factors that go into identifying your nonfiction project. What is the age of your reader? When you give an age range, it helps to give a range that is similar to the ones recognized by publishers. Some of the...
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You're Headed In The Right Direction

Saturday, April 24, 2021
Sometimes we get into our cars knowing exactly where we should be heading to get to our destination but decide to head in an entirely different direction. Usually it's because we think another route will get us there faster or we'll avoid heavy traffic. What we often find though is that our traveling time wasn't shortened at all, and that heavy traffic was unavoidable. If we had just kept heading...
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Picture Book Writer Series: The Hard Work Lecture

Thursday, April 22, 2021
No matter how old people are or their feelings about reading, they have fond memories of picture books. These memories can range from reading with parents or grandparents at night books like, The Monster at the End of This Book or The True Story of the Three Little Pigs or just about any Golden Book. Memories, of row after row of hardback picture books with white tags on the spine in a school library...
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The Importance of a Writing Habit (And How to Find Yours)

Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Without realizing it, I fell into a writing habit the past couple of months. It all started when I changed my weekend morning routine. Rather than turning on the coffee and skimming the news on my phone, I take out a notebook and write for a while. You see, this is remarkable to me because I've never been the type to embrace the idea of a writing habit. I've never thought it was for me. It reeked...
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Review of Cliffhanger: Jump Before You Get Pushed by Michael R. French

Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Review of Cliffhanger: Jump Before You Get Pushed by Michael R. French This Young Adult story centre’s around a high school student body president election, but it’s about much more than high school, it’s for young adult readers and beyond! Touching on corruption and truths, this page-turner of a novel will have you on the edge of your seat, enthralled to read on and find out who wins the...
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Interview with Victoria Lorrekovich-Miller , Runner Up in the WOW! 2020 Fall Flash Fiction Contest

Tuesday, April 20, 2021
 Victoria is super excited to see her first children’s picture book, If a Mantis Finds a Fly in the Sky, published and available for purchase.  This book was inspired by her real-life pet Praying Mantis, Jade, who just passed away. Who knew one could get attached to an insect! If you have, or know of, kids aged 3-8 who are big fans of bugs and Seussian rhymes, this book is for them! Victoria...
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