by Linda Phillips | Sep 21, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
For the past several months, in between teaching and family commitments, I’ve been hot on the agent pursuit with my YA novel written in verse and set in the sixties, two factors that immediately distance me from all those dystopian-paranormal-urban...
by Linda Phillips | Jul 22, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
Once in a while there is good news like the Charlotte Observer article featuring Mike Weaver, a former teacher from Charlotte who has learned to live with bipolar disease. After battling with his disease for a while, Weaver switched to a career in mental health in...
by Linda Phillips | Jul 13, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
Mental health is always on my mind. Maybe it’s because the protagonist in my ready-to-be-published book is frightened out of her skin by watching her mother slowly unravel not once, but twice. Laura, my fourteen-year-old main character, can’t get a straight answer...
by Linda Phillips | Jun 6, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
I have a work-in-progress about one teenage girl’s view of craziness. It’s been my WIP for longer than I’m willing to admit so you have to know I am living it and breathing it at this point. In fact, I am so sick of it I am ready to upchuck it and quickly clean up the...
