The Writer - 01.2020

JANUARY 2020 OUR GUIDE FOR YA, MG, & CHILDREN’S AUTHORS PRO TIPS TO INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVIT Y IN 2020 10 TOP CONTESTS FOR ...

EXCERPT CONT. Our Wayward Fate Even though the situation wasn’t funny in the least, I laughed. As much as my mother wished she c ...

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writermag.com • The Writer | 1 FEATURES January 2020 Contents Volu m e 133 Nu m be r 1 18 DEPARTMENTS 8 From the Front Lines Cho ...

2 | The Writer • January 2020 FROM THE EDITOR NICKI PORTER Keep writing, Nicki Porter Senior Editor @nickimporter New year, old ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 3 The Writer (ISSN 0043-9517) is published monthly by Madavor Media, LLC, 25 Braintree Hill Office ...

4 | The Writer • January 2020 AT a bookstore event for my first young adult novel, which tells a story about toxic love, I was a ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 5 He is open and effusive with his certainty about their relationship, and pressures Betts to prior ...

6 | The Writer • January 2020 BOOKISH New year, old words Fresh into a new year – and a new decade to boot – it’s always good to ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 7 A TIMELESS NECKLACE You may not be able to turn back time like Hermione without a Hogwarts ac- c ...

8 | The Writer • January 2020 FROM THE FRONT LINES BY YI SHUN LAI Choose your own narrator When should an author write in the se ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 9 books. What more thrilling way for a kid to escape her suburban California existence than to set ...

10 | The Writer • January 2020 FREELANCE SUCCESS BY PETE CROATTO The survivor: An interview with Pat Jordan The legendary magazi ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 11 want to do, but you’ve got to think globally. You’re always talking about how you wanted to writ ...

12 | The Writer • January 2020 WRITER AT WORK BY TONYA ABARI W hen Hannah Grieco sat down to read to her 6-year-old daughter, sh ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 13 digital story collection, History of Magic in North America, came under fire for inappropriately ...

YA AUTHOR MARIE LU RETURNS TO THE FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIA AND DIGS THROUGH THE PAST FOR TOMORROW’S STORIES. THAT LANDED HER ON THE B ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 15 Since 2013, her fans, begrudgingly, learned to cope with their unanswered questions. But then a ...

16 | The Writer • January 2020 slowly learn a precise, tender love for the English language. Suddenly, she wanted to be a writer ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 17 It’d be funny, perhaps, if it weren’t all so on-the- nose. Lu is writing for teenagers, yes. She ...