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Middle grade

Comics and Graphic Novels Rex Ogle: Don’t Take Rejections Personally

In this interview, author Rex Ogle discusses taking painful adolescent memories and reclaiming them in his new graphic novel, Fruitcake.

Robert Lee Brewer

Children's Aaron Starmer: On Speculative Fiction for Middle-Grade Readers Robert Lee Brewer

Children's Ciera Burch: Middle School Is the Worst Time Ever Robert Lee Brewer

Children's Jamie Sumner: Don’t Chase Perfection Robert Lee Brewer

Children's Follow This Checklist to Revise Your Middle-Grade Novel Huda Al-Marashi

Children's Writing “Heavy” Books for Children With a Light Touch Lisa Graff

Children's Writing a Picture Book After Multiple Middle-Grade Novels Torrey Maldonado

Children's Jacquelyn Stolos: Be Yourself on the Page Robert Lee Brewer

Submissions & Proposals Querying With One Manuscript, Going on Submission With Another Rona Wang

Children's Daniel Pinkwater, Alan Mendelsohn, and Why I Write Books for Children Jed Alexander

Mystery/Thriller A Conversation With Lauren Myracle on Breaking the Rules by Writing Across Ages and Genres (Killer Writers)Clay Stafford

WD Podcasts Keeping Young Readers Engaged with Alyssa Colman The Editors of Writer's Digest

Children's Cassandra Ramos-Gomez: On Mixing the Macabre With Middle-Grade Humor Robert Lee Brewer

Children's Voice Lessons Sherri Winston

Interviews The WD Interview: Laurie Halse Anderson Amy Jones

Children's G. F. Miller: On Romance in Middle-Grade Fiction Robert Lee Brewer

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