If You Come Softly

We’re always asking authors about their inspirations, stories of their first disastrous book tours or that time they said something they shouldn’t on Twitter. But as it turns out, there are other people involved in moving a book from a Word document to pile of bound paper in your hands. YA editors play a pivotal […]

Here are my reasons I’ve reread Woodson’s​​ If You Come Softly so many times: 1. Because the writing is so beautiful, lyrical, sparse, and heartbreaking! You can almost touch every sentence on the page. For example, here’s how Chapter One begins: “Jeremiah was black. He could feel it. The way the sun pressed down hard and […]