Interview with Translator Michelle Bailat-Jones

Interview with YA Writer and Translator Jim Anotsu

Interview with YA Writer Katya de Becerra

Have a long list of books you want to buy? How about a dream of visiting a retreat center to write for a few days? For people in a creative profession, especially writing, budgeting can mean the difference between getting to grab hold of opportunities and not. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of some great podcasts on budgeting and money, some even focused on creatives.

A few drafts in, we get so familiar with our YA manuscripts that the story begins to feel like an old friend. We know it backward and forwards, where each scene is and what happens in each scene. But we also smooth out the edges in our minds and it becomes harder and harder to look at our manuscripts with a critical eye. We get to a point where we go over all our pages only to discover we don’t know how to push them forward. To help out when that happens, we’ve compiled a few prompts to help you get fresh eyes on your story

Katherine Rothschild is a Lecturer in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, a former ballet and Arabic dance instructor, and an obsessive Twitter food truck-follower. Her first-person essays have been published on KQED/NPR, in The San Francisco Chronicle, and in several other Bay Area and California publications, and her academic work is published by Purdue University Press.