Elizabeth believes in chasing dreams, and even makes dream catchers for friends. She’s been a goal-setter her entire life and has a strong inner motivation to achieve them, no matter what conflicts she faces. She has lived a full and adventurous life and plans to keep those adventures coming, especially in books.
She knows kids well. She spent decades teaching teens and adults to write and improve their reading skills. As a literacy expert and certified coach, she helped both teachers from elementary to secondary and preservice graduate students learn to improve reading and writing instruction. She has taught at both the secondary and graduate level, everything from rhetoric, essays, and thesis statements, to poetry, short stories, and how to write a novel. She has learned to use both sides of her brain simultaneously, but enjoys the creative side the most, learning to play piano, draw and paint, and find time for her own writing since retiring from her “day” jobs.
A “true believer” in Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythic structures, she uses that lens when considering manuscripts for Tell-Tale Publishing Group, a company she founded with some friends from her critique group, upon retirement. That’s where she earned the nickname, Doc E. With three doctors in the group of eight women, a dentist, an optometrist and a Ph.D. they were Doc C, Doc D and Elizabeth, Doc E.
She approached Janet, someone she considers to be one of the best authors of YA fiction, and a retired journalist so a prolific writer, to write this book because she saw a huge need for it and wanted to receive better YA submissions. Then, Janet, who has coauthored numerous books, countered with a request that Elizabeth coauthor.
Put your words where your mouth is, so here it is. Being a great negotiator, however, Elizabeth also convinced Janet, a marvelous artist as you can see, to draw the wonderful illustrations for this book. Elizabeth agreed to do one. Have fun finding it.
She knows kids well. She spent decades teaching teens and adults to write and improve their reading skills. As a literacy expert and certified coach, she helped both teachers from elementary to secondary and preservice graduate students learn to improve reading and writing instruction. She has taught at both the secondary and graduate level, everything from rhetoric, essays, and thesis statements, to poetry, short stories, and how to write a novel. She has learned to use both sides of her brain simultaneously, but enjoys the creative side the most, learning to play piano, draw and paint, and find time for her own writing since retiring from her “day” jobs.
A “true believer” in Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythic structures, she uses that lens when considering manuscripts for Tell-Tale Publishing Group, a company she founded with some friends from her critique group, upon retirement. That’s where she earned the nickname, Doc E. With three doctors in the group of eight women, a dentist, an optometrist and a Ph.D. they were Doc C, Doc D and Elizabeth, Doc E.
She approached Janet, someone she considers to be one of the best authors of YA fiction, and a retired journalist so a prolific writer, to write this book because she saw a huge need for it and wanted to receive better YA submissions. Then, Janet, who has coauthored numerous books, countered with a request that Elizabeth coauthor.
Put your words where your mouth is, so here it is. Being a great negotiator, however, Elizabeth also convinced Janet, a marvelous artist as you can see, to draw the wonderful illustrations for this book. Elizabeth agreed to do one. Have fun finding it.
Finally, an all-inclusive book on young adult fiction must-do, don’t do and how-to. If you want to write a young adult novel, you need to read this book first. Coauthored by an award-winning YA author and an acquisitions editor, both experts on kids and what they like to read, this encyclopedia contains all you need to start or improve a career as a YA fiction author.
From an examination of the market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is at your fingertips. This amazing writer’s resource is written in a relaxed and interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for clear understanding and easier application
From an examination of the market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is at your fingertips. This amazing writer’s resource is written in a relaxed and interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for clear understanding and easier application
