Today's indie bookstore interview is a collaborative effort from the staff at Between the Covers bookstore in Harbor Springs, Michigan...

If a draft is written in a hotel lobby, and nobody is around to read it, does it really exist?  I have been working on a chapter book s...

You all know Patti Richards as one of our Mitten blog editors. She trumpets the good news and hard work of our SCBWI-MI members in two quart...

It’s time for another Writer Spotlight on this edition of The Mitten! Today I’m  happy to welcome one of my friends (and critique ...

My first book signing wasn’t great. I’m not quite sure when how to do a successful signing really happened. A big part of me thought that ...

I started writing my novel, The Life-Dividing Days, on a train I was taking from Ann Arbor to my sister’s house in St. Louis. By the time I ...

  MEET BRIANNE This questionnaire goes back to a popular parlor game in the early 1900s. Marcel Proust filled it out tw...