Craft Articles
Join us in exploring others’ craft and building our own.
Here you will find explorations of mentor texts – articles that dive into specific craft elements in published books, interviews with authors, and tips on growing and improving as a writer.
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Co-Authoring Interfaith and Intercultural Stories, with Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams, authors of The Button Box
Our focus today is on co-authorship, and specifically on how two authors can write interfaith or intercultural stories together--a great way to make sure that the books our children read are based on a rich variety of authentic, lived experience.
Interview with Brian Weisfeld: On Developing and Co-Writing a Series to Inspire Entrepreneurship
The four years of creating that original manuscript were the hardest and most humbling of my entire career. But my journey is also a reminder that there are a lot of different paths to publication.
