On Opinion vs. Criticism

On Voice: Three Ways

On Andrew Smith and Attacking the Avant-Garde

We All Looked Up: Imagery, Metaphor and Word Choice in YA Lit

It’s Not You, It’s Everything Else

Ten: Quick Confusion

On Querying: It’s About Etiquette

If I Stay: Emotionalism in Detail

Gone Girl: To Be YA or Not To Be YA

|On the Aims of the Artistic Process | On the Artistic Process of “On the Aims of the Artistic Process”|

Half Bad: Engaging Expectation in YA Lit

221B Baker Street: Character in Dialogue

We Were Liars: Compositionally Unstable

Linked: A Prelude to Story in YA Lit

Cress: Word Choice in YA Lit

The Hunger Games: Credibly Unique Protagonists in YA Lit

The Hunger Games: Stakes, Risk & Character in YA lit

The Eye of Minds: Pragmatic Implausibility in YA Lit

On Humanity & Unreliable Narrators

Blood Red Road: Language as Character & Setting in YA Lit