Writing for YA

Slider's Son! And is anyone else sick of paranormal…?

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Book Events, Writing, Writing for Children, Writing for kids, Writing for YA, Young Writers

Slider’s Son will be published September 2017. I wish my agent George Nicholson were alive to see this happen. He “loved” this manuscript when he read it, and that meant the world to me since he never used that term with my other novels, although he...

Slider's Son to be published in 2017!

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog, Writing, Writing for Children, Writing for kids, Writing for YA

Slider’s Son to be published in 2017! North Star Press! A murder! Grant O’Grady and his buddies smell something while playing baseball…It’s Big Joe’s body hidden in Grant’s best friend’s basement… Who? How? Why? The...

Deep Valley Book Festival

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Events, Writing, Writing for Children, Writing for kids, Writing for YA

Deep Valley Book Festival–Betsy-Tacy Society Calendar of Events. The Deep Valley Homecoming is coming up at the end of June. Author Melissa Wiley (whom I met at ALA in San Diego a couple years ago) will be a featured speaker. This will be fun. Check the above...

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 21, 2014 | Book Review, Writing for YA

I almost forgot to review this book. I read it several months ago. I figured that I should read such a popular YA book and see what all the fuss is about. With all the buzz about the movie version coming out, I read it in the summer. Since it wasn’t on the...

AWP Panel

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Mar 2, 2014 | Writing for Children, Writing for kids, Writing for YA

AWP: Our panel, “What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Writing for Children and Young Adults,” seemed like a success. At least we had a good time. It seemed as if our audience did. At least there wasn’t much shuffling, squirming, and reading...