Do you love to read? Do you enjoy helping others? Do you review books on a blog or website?…

I'm in the middle of revising a YA novella for an anthology and the guy putting it together wants more romance. ARG! This is why I write MG. Romance makes me gag. He told me to introduce the female-romantic-interest sooner. But it kind of screws up the plot if I do. Right now I just wrote her in a cameo appearence earlier, but I know he's going to say, "Write a scene where they interact". But that's not the plotline. Silly YA peeps wanting romance. Isn't adventure and…

With so many mixed messages about whether to post your work online or not, how should a writer know what to do? Writer Unboxed has some ideas on this very subject.

Awesome opportunity for 50 YA/MG writers to perfect their short synopsis, logline and query letter with the help of ten authors and Sarah LaPolla from Curtis Brown. Prizes include ms critiques and submission opportunitites. Entries accepted starting 8/19/2010 at noon E.T. To enter, you must be one of the first 50 to submit your brief synopsis in the comments of the announcement post. See…

Road Trip Wednesday is a “Blog Carnival”, where YA Highway‘s contributors post a weekly writing or reading-related question and answer it in on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get

everybody’s unique take on the topic.

You’re more than welcome to participate! Just answer the question on your own blog, and leave a link to…

As a follow-up to the announcement in Agent Insider about Colleen Lindsay's new role at Penguin, here is an update from her blog.

So, we couldn't be there. But thankfully, we have awesome members who are willing to post their experiences so we can know what it was like. There may even be some photos!

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