Wednesday, May 28, 2008
On Wakame and Bicultural Fiction for Children
SWET core member and regional advisor of the Tokyo chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Holly Thompson has lived in the Kamakura-Yokohama area since 1998 and teaches poetry and fiction writing at Yokohama City University. She is the author of the novel Ash (Stone Bridge Press, 2001) and recently made her debut as a picture book author with The Wakame Gatherers (Shen’s Books, 2007), the story of a bicultural girl who gathers wakame with her Japanese and American grandmothers. In this interview, Thompson shares some of her experiences writing and marketing The Wakame Gatherers, a rare example of bicultural fiction for children set in Japan.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Writing and Publishing Fiction
Australian author of A Much Younger Man and In the Empire of Dreams Dianne Highbridge spoke to SWET on September 14, 2007 about writing, finding an agent, being reviewed and other topics. Her successful Creative Writing classes at Temple University Japan led to a series of annual writing workshops (last held in October- November 2007). She has just completed a third novel, The Book Lover.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Book Review: Subtleties of Scientific Style
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Effective Onscreen Editing
Book Review
Effective onscreen editing: New tools for an old profession , by Geoff Hart. Pointe-Claire, Quebec: Diaskeuasis Publishing, 2007. 723 pages. Ebook. ISBN 978-0-9783227-0-0. US$20 outside Canada.
The First Five Pages
Book Review
The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999[K1]. 207 pages. Hardcover. ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9093-7; softcover ISBN-10: 978-0-7432-9090-3.[K2] $13.95.
Reviewed by Ginny Tapley