writing

The MEL Year in Review

Everything we learned from 2017, whether we wanted to or not

A Conversation With One of the Few Men in Young Adult Fiction

Jeff Zentner, author of ‘The Serpent King,’ on how to write about and for teenagers in a female-dominated space.

In a World Where Women Read More Than Men, It Pays to Write From Their Perspective

Gone Girl. The Girl on the Train. The Girls. Where the shelves of Barnes & Noble once groaned with book-club-ready titles like The Time-Traveler’s Wife…

You’re Wasting Years of Your Life Not Knowing How to Type Correctly

It was recently brought to my attention that two of my colleagues here at MEL don’t know how to type. That is, rather than memorizing…