Shirley: Melissa, you are my best friend! Melissa: But you’re best friends with everyone Shirley: But you are my extra best friend If you are 1) an emerging author who wants to know about how editors work or 2) someone who aspires to work for a publishing house then listen up! I introduce you to [...]

Life doesn’t just grow you up and leave you there; it keeps beating you into different shapes, like the cliffs. The people of Carrick have been whispering behind Neen’s back for most of her life; ever since her father drowned and her mother disappeared. The townspeople say her mother was a merrow who has returned [...]

“LISTEN UP children; do what your parents say. Or else your destiny might catch up with you. I know because it happened to me.” (a very very short excerpt of my story) What happens when Karen Tayleur emails you and asks if you can write a short and scary story in two days? You say [...]