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...

  I’m about as WASP as you can get, but the protagonist of my first middle-grade book, Desert Jewels , is not. Here’s the blurb. Twelve-ye...

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

Should you judge a book by the typographical errors? It depends. No proofreader is perfect, and to find one or two minor typos in a book doe...

  If you want to convince people that lives matter (black, brown, white, or whatever), you can demonstrate and you can riot. Or you can writ...

  Earlier this year, I had begun planning a summer research trip to New England to visit lighthouses. Then Covid-19 closed everything down. ...

  As I mentioned last week, I recently read finished re-reading David Copperfield . When I came to Chapter 55, titled “Tempest,” I was swept...