Editor’s note: As a site primarily focused on science fiction and fantasy literature, this blog considers itself lucky to have a few genuine practitioners of the genre on staff. When we learned one of them, Lauren Naturale, had attended the famed Clarion Writers’ Workshop, an intensive six-week program that’s like a condensed Iowa Writers’ Workshop for […]
I was a voracious reader as a child, but don’t take that to mean I had good taste. I had more Goosebumps than a shaved polar bear, and I read a whole series of videogame-themed Choose Your Own Adventure books. What I really needed was a good librarian to knock some sense into me (“Hey kid, put down that […]