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If you are a student working on a book report or homework assignment, you’ll find most of the information you are looking for in the Biography section, but also please be sure to check out the Writing Advice for Kids section, which is full of tips and creative writing prompts for young writers.
Adult readers here to learn more about Frances’s quilting stories can start in the Quilting Fiction section to learn more about her novel Birds in the Air and her book of short stories, Margaret Goes Modern.
Frances O’Roark Dowell is the award-winning author of such novels as Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Children’s Book Award; the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy; Shooting the Moon, which received a Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; the teen novel, Ten Miles Past Normal; and the new Sam the Man series for younger readers. Her first for adult readers was the quilting novel Birds in the Air, which was followed by a short story collection about the quilting life titled Margaret Goes Modern.
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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad First Draft
Ask anybody who sees my early drafts (especially my editor) and they’ll tell you that I write the worst first drafts ever. The girls in the weekly writing group I lead are often shocked when [...]
Editors in the Classroom Workshop
One of the most important things an editor does is help the writer see what she’s actually written—as opposed to what she thinks she’s written. The editor points out to the writer what’s confusing about [...]
What Does an Editor Do, Anyway?
It might seem strange to launch a blog about writing and teaching with a post about editors, but hear me out. I want us to get away from the idea that writing is a solo [...]
EVENT: Join Frances at McIntyre’s Books
Rajanni LaRocca, Midsummer’s Mayhem, Gillian McDunn Caterpillar Summer, and Frances O’Roark Dowell, The Class SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 | 2:00 PM https://fearrington.com/event/rajanni-larocca-gillian-mcdunn-frances-oroark-dowell/
‘The Class’ earns Starred Review from Booklist
"Award-winning and bestselling author Dowell has created an intricate, laugh-out-loud story, in which readers will recognize themselves and their own classmates through the 20 distinct perspectives that emerge as confessions and pieces of the mysteries [...]
Publishers Weekly Reviews ‘The Class’
"The many views and diverse cast create a complex, thought-provoking, and entertaining view of middle school.” —Publishers Weekly Read the full review of The Class - Publishers Weekly
Sam is pretty cool in any language…
Happy to get these author copies from Yewon Media Publishing Co., the Korean publisher of my Sam the Man books!
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