P.S. McFadden: Children’s Writer

I’ve been on both sides of an editor’s desk and have thereby gained some useful insight into the editing process, which I hope will be useful to you.
My editing experience was three years as assistant editor for a local monthly arts newspaper. All our writers were volunteers, so the articles we got had a [...]

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I’m in the midst of rewriting a YA novel for the third time and was explaining to a friend of mine what I was doing.
“I’m adding a new character to the first chapter, and moving the last scene to the fourth chapter and ratcheting up my main character’s angst another notch or two and shifting [...]

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Warning: I’m feeling a bit grumpy today, so the following post will contain a certain amount of ranting.
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in writing for the informify web site is having to learn a whole new style of writing with a whole new set of more-or-less- incomprehensible rules. Now, instead of [...]

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Tasha Tudor died yesterday at the age of 92. I never met her, but feel as though I knew her, nonetheless.
All my life, I’ve read and loved Tasha’s books, from Pumpkin Moonshine, her first book, published in 1938, to Corgyville Christmas, her last book, published in 2002. In all, she wrote and [...]

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I’ve just started a new job, writing for an online news webpage, Informify.com.
I’m learning a lot about the difference between writing for print and writing for the web. It seems that reading on a computer screen accesses a different part of the brain than reading from a page. This is why it’s so hard [...]

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