During my time writing nonfiction books for the YA school library market, I did books on the great and the near great, including Jerry Yang (2010) for Chelsea House’s “Asian Americas of Achievement” series. That’s right, 22,000 words on a computer geek.… Read the rest
Chelsea House
When one makes a living as a freelance writer, one must often write a wide range of things.
In my case, that includes, among other things, comic books, short stories, novels, articles and the occasional foray into non-fiction for the YA market.… Read the rest
Some writing gigs are a pure horror. One such horror was this, a young adult non-fiction book about the building of the Alaska Highway (very short version: authorized right after Pearl Harbor to link North American air bases through U.S., Canada, and Alaska, the highway was begun in February 1941 and finished, 1600 miles later, in September 1941, an engineering marvel spearheaded by the U.S.… Read the rest
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