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2019 TAX GUIDE
FOR FREELANCE WRITERS
30+
GRANTS,
FELLOWSHIPS,
& AWARDS
FOR EVERY
WRITER
JANUARY 2019
WRITING
F
OR
EFFECTIVELY
INCORPORATE
TECH
IN YA FICTION
HOW TO PUT YOUR
INNER CHILD
ON THE PAGE
& children’s
ything YA, MG,
Ever
eed to know
Authors n
OU
NG
Y
ER
S
READ
THE TOP 10
CONTESTS FOR
YOUNG WRITERS
PLUS!
REVISION STRATEGIES:
Go long & cut, or
write short & add?
What
MAURICE SENDAK
can teach all writers
Contents
FEATURES
26
January 2019
Volume 132 Number 1
DEPARTMENTS
10
Writer at Work
Mind your business
Tax tips for writers.
BY JENNIFER L. BLANCK
12
Writing Essentials
Go long & cut, or write
short & add?
Writers share their
best tips for penning
irst drafts.
BY LIBBY CUDMORE
14
Freelance Success
Phone it in
To write better stories,
conquer your hang-ups
over calling sources.
BY PETE CROATTO
38
Literary Spotlight
Zizzle Magazine
This international lash
iction journal aims to
bring parents and chil-
dren together to foster a
lifelong love of reading.
16
How to be a kid
Six steps towards inding your
inner child on the page.
BY MARGARET MEACHAM
30
Painting outside
the lines
Think YA can’t be literary? Meet
Jandy Nelson – and watch her
lyrical language bring fully
formed protagonists to life.
BY TONI FITZGERALD
BY MELISSA HART
40
Conference Insider
KidLitCon
If you write books for
young readers, this New
England conference is
an event you can’t miss.
BY MELISSA HART
22
Maurice Sendak’s
memory magic
Connect emotionally with young
readers with lessons from one
of the most beloved children’s
authors of all time.
BY GRETCHEN HAERTSCH
36
Book reviewing
for beginners
Four reasons why you should
do it – and six tips on how to
do it well.
BY RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE
IN EVERY ISSUE
2
From the Editor
4
Take Note
42
Markets
47
Classiied advertising
48
How I Write
Nic Stone
26
Towers of techno-babble
The importance of technology
(and keeping it straight) in young
adult and middle grade iction.
BY JESSICA STILLING
Cover: Irmun/Shutterstock; samantha cheah/Shutterstock
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FROM THE EDITOR
NICKI PORTER
The next generation
I look forward to our annual Writing for Young
Readers issue all year, and our 2019 edition is a
real doozy. This month, we take inspiration from
the great Maurice Sendak, practice putting our
inner child on the page, learn how to incorporate
technology into stories written for the most tech-
savvy generation in history, and glean wisdom
from two of my very favorite YA authors, Nic
Stone and Jandy Nelson. (If you haven’t yet read
anything by these two ladies,
please
consider
doing so. I can’t push their books into the hands
of friends and relatives fast enough.)
But something Nelson said in her interview
stuck with me for months after I first read it:
I
think it’d be nice for YA writers to be taken more
seriously. I can’t tell you how many times I’m asked
when I’m going to write a “real” novel.
A “real” novel. My blood boils every time I
read it. I picture myself when I was young, read-
ing and re-reading novels by Sharon Creech,
Louis Sachar, and E.L. Konigsburg, and I imagine
someone patting my head and telling me these
books were nice, but they weren’t
real
novels.
Books – not my community, my education, or
any other institution – created the person I am
today. These “not-real” novels shaped my soul. It
is impossible to say who I’d be without them; my
identity is permanently linked to the reading I
did when I was younger.
They are the reason I am a writer, they inform
how I see the world, and, as Nelson reminds us in
her interview, they are the reason I read books
today. All authors who pen adult novels owe an
outstanding debt to middle-grade and YA novel-
ists, who work so hard and so brilliantly in an age
of technological distraction to capture a genera-
tion’s attention with the written word.
The good news is that repaying that debt is
frighteningly simple. Step one: Find a YA author.
Step two: Buy his or her book. Step three: Read it.
Step four: Repeat.
Here, I’ll get you started with step one. This is
a short list of authors writing incredible things
for young readers:
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Adam Silvera
Becky Albertalli
Angie Thomas
Adib Khorram
Julie Murphy
Jenny Han
Julie Buxbaum
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John Green
Corinne Duyvis
Nicola Yoon
Jason Reynolds
Tomi Adeyemi
David Levithan
Rainbow Rowell
YA is truly one of the most exciting genres in
literature right now. You’ll be stunned at what
these tremendously talented authors are doing
with their “not-real” novels. So: Find. Buy. Read.
Repeat. Donate their books to school libraries.
Share them with the young people in your life.
Because if we don’t do our part to instill a love of
reading today, there’ll be no one to enjoy our
books tomorrow.
Keep writing,
Nicki Porter
Senior Editor
@nickimporter
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