Writing for Teens and Tweens -- Online Workshop
Need help finishing your manuscript? Writing for Teens and Tweens gives you that structured encouragement to write through to the end, and detailed notes to guide you with your revisions.
Just 125.00 for 8 weeks of detailed critique of up to 15 pages of your ms per week.
If you'd like more information please send me an email at:
ann@anngonzalez.com
This class is offered on an ongoing basis.
Wow, Running for My Life received a Flamingnet Top Choice Award from a young reviewer. I'm grateful that a young reader appreciated reading Andrea's story.
Listen to KUOW's 94.9 Sound Focus to hear me talk writing Running for My Life during the thirty days of Nanowrimo. Sarah Waller and Jeannie Yandel are wonderful producers and hosts. They welcomed me into the studio and let me wear headphones and talk into the big spongy yellow microphone. In a recording studio the silence around the spoken word is the most beautiful sound I've ever not heard.
At the edge of speech there is a magnificent quiet.
In RUNNING FOR MY LIFE, 14-year-old Andrea McKane earns medals for courage and strength from her therapist as she deals with her schizophrenic mother. I would bestow similar medals on writer AnnGonzalez for presenting Andrea's tough story with honesty, grace, hope and even humor. The crisp writing and authentic voice immediately drew me in but it was Andrea herself -- as well as her good friends -- that captured my heart. This is no "problem novel" but the frank and fearless story of a great kid who overcomes the unimaginable. I will be thinking about Andrea for a long, long time.
Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky
