Sarah Mlynowski
Sarah Mlynowski
Sarah Mlynowskiis a writer of middle-grade fiction, young adult novels, and adult fiction. Sarah lives in New York City...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth4 January 1977
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
invited lit myspace people teen
I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.
attempted geeky knew online signed terrified though twitter
Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.
audience decided experience felt love starting ya
I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.
aware careful far
I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.
love
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.
anger cultural emotions love talk teen teens tv watch whenever ya
I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.
career easily home husband morning turn work
I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course. I really try to see writing as a career that I turn off when my husband comes home from work. Otherwise, writing could very easily become all-consuming.
boy busy crazy discovers family french gets gone life mom save shock ways younger
In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are both... witches! In 'Frogs & French Kisses,' Rachel and her witchy family are back - Miri is busy zapping up ways to save the world, while Mom has gone boy crazy and become a magicaholic.
outlines
I always work from an outline.
running married doomed
Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.
believe names april
Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
crazy form
We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?
dad crazy stories
Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you....
running people found
She said people found running to something easier than running from something.