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Check Your Connection: Character in YA literature, a guest post by Susan Metallo

Check Your Connection: Character in YA literature, a guest post by Susan Metallo
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Sep 05, 2025
When an author bears witness to the experience of adolescence through a real, living, breathing, complicated, messy protagonist caught in a web of complicated, messy relationships, readers notice.
Growing Fangs, a guest post by Marker Snyder

Growing Fangs, a guest post by Marker Snyder
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Sep 03, 2025
In eighth grade, I was scared of the world finding out the truth about me. But I think, even scarier, was admitting that truth to myself.
Debutante Balls in the 21st Century: The Inspiration Behind By Invitation Only, a guest post by Alexandra Brown Chang

Debutante Balls in the 21st Century: The Inspiration Behind By Invitation Only, a guest post by Alexandra Brown Chang
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 28, 2025
I can’t wait for readers to experience the characters’ journeys to debutante delirium in the fashion capital of the world. Everyone is cordially invited to attend!
An Imperfect Storm, a guest post by James Ponti

An Imperfect Storm, a guest post by James Ponti
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 27, 2025
My writing life has been an imperfect storm, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Exploring Complex Family Dynamics in Contemporary YA Fiction, a guest post by Khadijah VanBrakle

Exploring Complex Family Dynamics in Contemporary YA Fiction, a guest post by Khadijah VanBrakle
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 26, 2025
I promised myself when I began writing for teenagers in 2017, that I would tackle topics often silenced or totally ignored in households within my faith community specifically.
Farting dragons, pillow fights, and FUN in Middle Grade, a guest post by Christine Virnig

Farting dragons, pillow fights, and FUN in Middle Grade, a guest post by Christine Virnig
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 25, 2025
Maybe I DO have something I’m hoping kids will learn from my books after all: That even when the world feels like it’s falling down around them, they can still find laughter.
THE VALUE OF IMAGERY IN VERSE NOVELS FOR YOUNG READERS, a guest post by Cordelia Jensen

THE VALUE OF IMAGERY IN VERSE NOVELS FOR YOUNG READERS, a guest post by Cordelia Jensen
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 20, 2025
Because I love imagery, developing an image system for a verse novel is one of my favorite challenges.
How I Learned to Face Tomorrow, a guest post by Joanne Yi

How I Learned to Face Tomorrow, a guest post by Joanne Yi
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 15, 2025
Sometimes we are not okay. Sometimes we crave respite from the onward march. Sometimes we need the relief of being seen. And that, I believe, is okay.
“Where do you get your ideas?” Navigating the Origins of Nonfiction, a guest post by Laurie Lawlor

“Where do you get your ideas?” Navigating the Origins of Nonfiction, a guest post by Laurie Lawlor
Amanda MacGregor | Blogs,  Aug 14, 2025
The memory of a song helped inspire my latest nonfiction book, Many Voices, Building Erie, the Canal that Changed America.
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