Kathryn Page Camp

  Last week I explained why I chose a Japanese-American protagonist for my first middle-grade historical novel. But that protagonist was hal...

  The Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has been presenting digital workshops free to members and archiving them ...

Creating Esther is written for a secular audience, but religion was a part of both the Native American culture and the white culture th...

The characters in Creating Esther speak two languages, which makes the work harder for me as the author. At the beginning of the book, I...

I got spoiled when writing my first middle grade historical novel, Desert Jewels , which follows a Japanese American girl living in Cali...

As mentioned in previous posts, the main character in Creating Esther is an Ojibwe girl who goes to an Indian boarding school in 1895. ...

When writing outside your race or culture, it is particularly important to avoid labels that unintentionally disparage the race or cultu...

My research for writing Creating Esther wasn’t limited to documents. I also dragged Roland along on a trip through Ojibwe country in Mic...

My research for any historical novel begins with reading as many first-person accounts as I can. This is especially important when writi...