HeyJaredVoracious
For readers with an interest in children's & YA literature, both current and vintage, as well as general fiction, here's writing and publishing advice from an award-winning author and editor who has worked in and around the industry for 25 years.
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Untouchable antagonists: writing for a new generation (opens the original)
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Today’s newsletter includes a piece about why I wanted to explore untouchable and double-edged antagonists in The Wild Unknown during this pivotal moment of tech adoption. Thank you to the educators and booksellers who are choosing The Wild Unknown for book clubs or class texts. Click here for Teaching Notes, and here for my website which has links to podcasts and Q&As.A s
Half-Year Reading Review: 11 Books & Birds (opens the original)
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This edition contains images so you may need to click on "View entire message".Dear Reader,An extra edition this month. I felt the urge to make one of my trademark celebrations of my two comforts, reading and birding. I usually wait for Christmas but I can just scrape in for Christmas in July, warming my Northern Hemisphere bones under a plug-in fleece blanket in Melbourne while I choose memorable books from my reading log and match them to bird photos I’ve taken this year, using my personal for
How to reach The End (opens the original)
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In today’s newsletter: how to reach the end of a work-in-progress (for humans and/or butterflies), and my angle on the ‘boys & reading’ debate. Recommendations: an end-of-the-world literary thriller, a New Zealand podcast about long-lost family, and a middle-grade novel examining family alongside earthly versus extraterrestrial existence.Thank you for reading Voracious.Build a small house around yourself.Last week I went on my first writing retreat: three wintry nights in a bor
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