Diversity in YA Fiction

Writer Unboxed has a great post up today about writing about cultures other than your own from Cindy Pon and Shveta Thakrar, who host the Diversity in YA Fiction website and book tour. Love the idea for taking their show on the road! Maybe we should do a White Readers Meet Black Authors road show.... Hmmmm.

For writers

I have a guest post on the blog Novel Spaces today (part 1 was posted last week). I like Novel Spaces because it's one of the few multicultural, multi-genre writing blogs that I know of. Since I bet a lot of the readers here are also writers, thought I'd ask you to please check it out.

Also, on SheWrites (another diverse writing site):

Martha Southgate will be hosting a webinar  on Nov. 10.
Andrea Collier is blogging weekly about NaNoWriMo.
Every Tuesday, Tayari Jones writes about craft.

And, check out The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog, founded by a young black woman and featuring contributors of all stripes. They're doing a give-away this week! (I'll be doing some writing over there myself.

Finally (for now anyway), Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes host The Writers Circle, with blog posts and forums and all kinds of helpful info.