by Laura Brooke Robson | Jun 1, 2021 | Archives, Life, Writing
When I was wee, I was told that this was a story: You struggle toward a goal, and it’s hard, but then you make it. And boy, it’s exciting! Then you lounge peacefully in the realm of Happily Ever After. I absorbed this shape. And not just because I write. I...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 9, 2020 | Archives, Writing
According to Google Analytics, most people who visit my website are either college classmates or YA readers. If you’ve been on this website before, you will probably be surprised that I know this information. An outside observer would probably look at my posts...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Jan 5, 2020 | Archives, Life, Writing
Upon announcing a Big Fancy Book Deal™, a certified Author-In-Training starts to hear some of the same things over and over. But no oft-heard reaction perplexes me more than: Obviously, this is a very kind, if unfounded, thing to say about me. And people say it all...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 17, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Writing
In rewriting my book for the seventeenth time, I realized that I will go to extreme lengths to avoid certain difficult rules of grammar and syntax. I would rather rewrite the whole paragraph than choose between “It is me” and “It is I.” 3For the record, it’s “It is I”...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Sep 25, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Life, Writing
A year and a half ago, I sold my first two books to a publisher. People asked, mostly: What’s the title? Oh, awkward, we’re retitling it so I don’t know yet!What’s the cover? Oh, oops, so I won’t see the cover until closer to the release.Is it written? Yes! It’s...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Oct 18, 2018 | Life, Writing
*By which I mean literature, not, like, “Suh dude, lit party.” Though in my opinion, books are also pretty lit. Hi friends! Well, we’re here. Four months after college graduation, and I’m finally doing that “life update” all my friends did in June. Oops. And what a...
