"The Crossover" is a novel made up of basketball poems, and the author is a guy in a Heat hat who might make you cry.
How do you get reluctant readers to fall in love with a book? Writer and literacy activist Kwame Alexander says you have to offer them something relatable. In "The Crossover," basketball is the hook to persuade kids to pick up a novel written in poetic verse.
Kwame Alexander is a poet, publisher, and an award-winning producer of literary programs. Dubbed a "phenom" in the poetry world by The Charleston (SC) City Paper, Alexander has written for television the stage, and authored ten books including the best-selling Do The Write Thing: 7 Steps to Publishing Success, Dancing Naked on the Floor: poems and essays, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, and most recently a young adult title, Crush: Love Poems. He speaks, and conducts writing/publishing workshops at schools and conferences throughout the country.
An interview with Louis Sachar on Author magazine. For more advice and inspiration, go to: http://www.authormagazine.org/
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"Holes," Newbery author Louis Sachar's amazing book gets some burning questions answered about it by intervirewer Tim Podell.
I am starting my third book. It can be hard to go back to the beginning of the process and start a whole new mess to clean up, so I collected all the drafts of the first page of Fire Horse Girl that I saved. Here a video of all the revisions that I could...
Rev. Tom McDermott tells the Story of David and Goliath using his ukulele on August 24, 2014 during the eleven:eleven celebration. A loose adaptation of a version he heard Storyteller Ed Stibender do with a harmonica years ago.
"The only thing I have ever wanted to be for my whole life was a writer. I wrote all through childhood, all through adolescence, by the time I was a teenager I was sending my very bad stories to The New Yorker, hoping to be discovered.
If you haven't unintentionally spent three hours watching TED Talks online, that's about to change. It's almost impossible to watch just one video at a time because the topics are so interesting. For those who are not familiar with TED, it is a yearly conference that focuses mainly on technology and design and recruits speakers to talk about different topics.
