By Karis Rogerson Kati Gardner, the author of Brave Enough and this year’s Finding Balance, got her writerly start by penning fan fiction. “I wrote General Hospital fanfiction because I was a huge General Hospital fan in the late 90s,” she said. “That was probably the first place that I ever … [Read more...] about Why Kati Gardner Chose to Have Her Character Not Wear a Prosthesis
Finding Balance
It Matters That My YA Novel Has a Visibly Disabled Character on the Cover
By Kati Gardner Like a lot of us growing up in the 90s, I read what few YA books I could find shelved among the Baby-Sitters Club and Judy Blume novels. I read everything that Christopher Pike wrote, all of the books by Lurlene McDaniel, and one of my favorites, L.J. Smith. The covers for these … [Read more...] about It Matters That My YA Novel Has a Visibly Disabled Character on the Cover
