Monthly Archives: May 2016

by Sylvia Nica, jaBlog! Blogger   Until a few months ago, I had never fully revised my fiction. I would take my draft, scribble it up, and then send it off to some random contest. However, after getting multiple rejections from publications, I developed a five-step filter system for revising any fiction prose. Just like...

by Hannah Brown, jaBlog! Blogger   In the summer of 2014, I and about 30 others attended the Junior Author’s Writing Conference in Guildford in the UK. It was such a great and enjoyable day for me, and I’m sure it was for the others as well. The whole experience was enriching, and not just...

by Valerie Flokstra, jaBlog! Book Review Editor   Journey to Eternity is a book unlike any I have read before. It is full of poems that vividly describe young author Rachit Bansal’s take on life. Rachit Bansal was fifteen years old when he published his 99-page collection of poems. The poems cover dozens of different...