2025 r/Fantasy Bingo Guide: Young Adult

If you aren’t aware, every year, the massive r/Fantasy Reddit publishes a reading bingo sheet. If you complete the entire card (and turn it in during a form they post the following March) you get a “Reading Champion” flair in the subreddit. If you do this for multiple years, they’ll increment your title to “Reading […]

Writing believable children

A lot of authors find children hard to write well, but most people find the kids I write very believable. In this post, I’ve tried to sum up what I’ve learned as succinctly as possible: a bit over 3,000 words, broken down into sections. Kids are not that different than adults. They just lack an […]

Great gifts that kids probably won’t ask for

                 It’s weird, these days. I’m generally grateful that my kids aren’t exposed to much advertising, but it becomes very noticeable around Christmastime. When I was a kid, I wanted lots of toys because advertisements had shown me what they did. Twenty years later, and I can still sing “Crossfire!” like the commercial. I […]