Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
I was scrounging around on Simon & Schuster's website, finding this page for William Boniface's Adventures of Max the Minnow. And my eye caught on the message to the left:There are no other ways to refine.
That seems to be the S&S search-engine's jargon for "This author has only one title in print from us, so you can't narrow down your search any other way." But the connotations of that line go so much deeper.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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