Jaclyn Paul / Lena George
author. mom. nerd. lover of mountains, rime ice, and cloud inversions.
Blog
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How to support authors you love
I get a lot of questions from my social circle about how to support my work. (Thank you, friends!) As a primary measuring stick of authorial success, book sales get a lot of attention. However, I consider them only a small piece of the puzzle. There are so many things you can do beyond purchasing…
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On editing Roald Dahl, and what I’d want for my own books decades from now
I scrolled into an interesting article/headline the other day: Big-Five publisher Puffin is implementing “extensive changes” across legendary author Roald Dahl’s catalog of children’s books. Some strike me more as modernization — replacing masculine plural nouns with gender-neutral ones — while others explicitly aim to remove offensive language. This is a thought-provoking issue for me…
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The magic of fifty words a day
I used to be really into New Year’s resolutions. Also, lofty goals and all manner of similar endeavors that look good on paper but inspire disappointment and self-criticism in real life. It felt good to tell myself — and the people around me, let’s be real — I was an ambitious person. The sort to…
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Book review: Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (middle grade)
When did you read your first serious novels? I remember the latter half of elementary school as a time of discovering dark stories, complex characters, books that grappled with big scary issues. Sometimes this was because I’d raided my parents’ collection of horror and dystopian fiction, but oftentimes not. When my own kiddo reached this…
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Book review: A Hand to Hold in Deep Water by Shawn Nocher
I don’t consider myself a book blogger or bookstagrammer, but people seemed to appreciate when I posted an actual review on Instagram the other day. Maybe I should get back in the habit? If I’m going to get back in the habit, though, I want to cross post my reviews here for posterity. Feel free…