Thursday, March 24, 2011

About Melissa Glenn Haber

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“When I was writing The Pluto Project, for example, one of the main challenges I had in revision was making the two main female characters different from one another. While I was first writing the book, I didn’t really distinguish clearly between their characters. My editor helped me see that the two girls were really very different—one of them, Alice, was very smart, unsentimental, and a great match for the main character, Alan, while the other, Juliet (the one Alan likes) is committed, passionate, but not exceptionally bright. Once I realized my editor was right, I found lots of places where I had given Juliet dialog that really belonged to Alice, and I began to see that the brilliant ideas Juliet had really needed to come from other characters. And doing that made the book much richer, because it adds to the story that Alan (who really values wit and intelligence) should find himself attracted to someone for her passion and not for her brains. Plus, it makes the book more real, to have supporting characters who are really their own people.”

To read the full interview with the author of The Pluto Project check out her website http://www.melissaglennhaber.com/oaqs.php

Thursday, March 10, 2011

More Books about Teens as Detectives

Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery by Abrahams

Rat Life by Arnold

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Berk

The Musician's Daughter by Dunlap

The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery by Ferguson

The Dying Breath: A Forensic Mystery by Ferguson

Something Rotten: A Horatio Wilkes Mystery by Gratz

Lulu Dark Can See through Walls by Madison

The Venetian Policeman by Rabb

The Death Collector by Richards

In Too Deep by Rushford

From Charlie's Point of View by Scrimger

Live and Let Shop by Spradlin

Creature of the Night by Thompson

The Uninvited by Wynne-Jones