“Before you become a writer, you must first be a reader,” author Karen Harrington says. “Reading books actually teaches you more about writing t...

You would think that writers are good readers. Not Jenn Reese. “I started out as a terrible reader,” she admits. “So bad, I had to attend specia...

All Lisa Mangum wanted to do when she grew up was to be a writer. “Deep down, I knew that someday I would write a book,” she says. But in eighth g...

When writer Liesl Shurtliff was 8, her mother remarried and Liesl inherited three new siblings, plus a baby her mother had with her stepdad. Suddenly,...

Click on the image to watch the video! Author and illustrator Grace Lin is a born storyteller. She believes that “it’s really important to write ...