Upcoming events

This Wednesday (as in, two days from now) I’ll be speaking at the Salt Lake Public Library for the monthly SCBWI meeting. That’s at 7pm, at the 4th South main library. Topic of the evening is the state of YA and children’s fantasy and science fiction. In a couple of weeks I’ll speak in Layton, … Read more

The writer’s toolbox: grammar

A random thought that has occurred to me as I’ve done a number of critiques in the last few months: A lot of people say that grammar doesn’t matter because the editor fixes that anyway. Wrong. The voice of your book is shown in how the narrator uses grammar. Oh, a typo here or there … Read more