Kathryn Page Camp

On Friday, we launched our sailboat for the season. Everything went perfectly—unlike last year, when we battled high winds and put a scr...

No, I’m not going to tell you that the Cobb salad I had on Saturday taught me that multiple ingredients make a story more interesting...

I just sent Desert Jewels to my copyeditor. When I tell people that, they often ask how copyediting differs from other types of edit...

The SCBWI conference didn’t just increase my workload for Desert Jewels , as I discussed in last week’s blog. It also highlighted the ad...

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...