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I love epigraphs, or those quotes found at the beginning of a novel. They’re usually excerpts of song lyrics or poems or a sentence or two from another novel.

Written by someone other than the novel’s author, an epigraph hints at themes that will be developed in the novel. They also tell you something about the author, providing a glimpse into what they value, insights into their sensibilities.

I began thinking about epigraphs for Kid America five months ago, knowing I would need the creator’s...

I turn sixty-five in two weeks. I like to write the number in Roman alphabet instead of numerically because, well, in letter form it doesn’t look like a number. Kid America, my first young adult novel, will be released November 3. Yes, I’ll be publishing my first novel at age sixty-five and a few months.

Sixty-five is old for a debut novelist. Some might question, though, whether I can call myself a first-time author. I have buried in my past and probably in a few people’s academics stacks...

Check out my guest blog post at "Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday," a website about all things young adult literature.

Here is the first paragraph to get you started: