Award-winning novelist M. E. Kerr shares for the first time the stories behind—and excerpt from—five of her novels and five short stories and offers young people dozens of sensible writing tips that can be used immediately by any aspiring writer of fiction. A professional writer who has earned her living solely as an author from the year after she graduated college to the present, Ms. Kerr—with her usual mix of sparkling with and common sense—talks about how she gets her ideas and, more important, how she uses them to create her stories.
Whether you are writing your next school assignment or thinking about writing as career, Blood on the Forehead gives you a fascinating insight into the way one highly successful author approaches her own work.For decades, Marijane Meaker has delighted readers of all ages. Shes written under the names Vin Packer, M. J. Meaker, and Mary James. But as M. E. Kerr, writer of books for young adults, she has won perhaps her greatest audience.In Blood on the Forehead M. E. Kerr shares both the stories behind and excerpts from five of her novels and five short stories for young adults, as well as tips about what writers need to remember in order to write fiction successfully (e.g., Courtesy #10 to extend to your reader: Cut! Cut! Cut! Your reader has a life.). With her usual mix of sparkling wit and common sense, Kerrs personal journey through the writing process is sure to buoy the spirits of any reader faced with the next writing assignment.
Author Biography:
M.E. Kerr is a winner of the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 2000 ALAN award from theNational Council of Teachers of English. She lives in East Hampton, New York, and remembers clearly the hometown boy who chose not to fight when all the other young men, including her brother, were marching off to war.
Using examples from five novels and five short stories, young adult writer M. E. Kerr offers insights into ways writers can get ideas and create successful stories.

M. E. Kerr

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Longman Publishing

HarperTrophy

United States, United States of America

1st, First Edition, US, 1998

subject: Kerr, M.E; Kerr, M.E; Fiction; Fiction; Authorship

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topic: Kerr, M.E; Kerr, M.E; Fiction; Fiction; Authorship

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) author's note
2. (p2) short stories
2.1. (p3) 1 SITTING NEXT TO AN IDEA "Sunny Days andSunnyNights"
2.2. (p4) 2 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CHICKEN? "Like Father, Like Son"
2.3. (p5) 3 OH, YES YOU WILL! "I Will Not Think of Maine"
2.4. (p6) 4 RECURRENT THEMES "The Green Killer"
2.5. (p7) 5 GUESS WHO'S COMING TO YOUR SCHOOL! "The Author"
3. (p8) novels (and autobiography)
3.1. (p9) 1 WHAT IF? Gentlehands
3.2. (p10) 2 A FIRECRACKER EXPLODES I Stay Near YOU
3.3. (p11) 3 A SERIAL WRITER Fell
3.4. (p12) 4 MUST YOU BE A CAKE TO WRITE A COOKBOOK? Little Little
3.5. (p13) 5 NAMES Me Me Me Me Me

theme: Kerr, M.E; Kerr, M.E; Fiction; Fiction; Authorship

The popular young adult author provides excerpts from five of her novels and five short stories as well as the stories behind them, offering tips about what aspiring writers need to create fiction successfully.

2023-06-28