Kathryn Page Camp

A week ago I attended a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference held at Canyon Inn (pictured above) in McCormick’...

When I was a child, I spent a week at camp every summer. The setting was Presbytery Point in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, surrounded by w...

Academics shouldn’t criticize fiction if they don’t understand how it works. As part of the research for Creating Esther , I have bee...

Did you know that it snows in the desert? Well it does. In some deserts, anyway. When writing Desert Jewels , I wanted my readers to ...

If you read last week's post, you know I left it with a question. How did I come up with Dewmist as the name of my fictional boardin...

I am currently researching my next book, which will be about a Native American girl attending an Indian boarding school in 1895.* As I m...

People ask how I come up with names for my characters. I don’t always use the same method, so it’s easiest to explain by using examples....