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Lena Coakley
Young Adult Fantasy Author
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Welcome to my website. My name is Lena Coakley and my first novel, a YA high fantasy called Witchlanders is now out From Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Witchlanders has just won the 2012 SCBWI...
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My Interview with Harper Collins Canada Editor, Hadley Dyer
My first interview as Canadian corruspondant for Cynthia Leitich... read more
A Query Dissected
A number of people have been asking me how I got my literary agent, and it... read more
Why Fantasy?
When I was a child, people told me so often that I read fantasy for escape that... read more
Were the Brontës Science Fiction Authors?
Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It An Exhibition at the... read more
Making My Witchlanders Book Trailer–Part 2
Last week I posted some of my favourite book trailers in hopes that they would... read more
Making My Witchlanders Book Trailer–Part 1
I adore book trailers. I was speaking to a writer yesterday who audibly moaned... read more
Mind the Gap: great writing advice from the London tube system
In London, every time a train door opens, an automated female voice tells you... read more
Developing Desire: Why Knowing What Your Character Wants May Not Be Enough
I started such a brilliant novel a few years ago. Oh it would have been... read more
My Interview with Author Cheryl Rainfield on Book Promotion
My first novel is coming out in three months and I’ve gone tharn. I’m a... read more
Writer’s Block, Writing Partners, and “the Dread”
Back before I started my first novel, I asked my full-time writer friends how... read more
Michael Hauge—A Different Way of Thinking about Character Development
Last month a number of other children’s authors and I attended the... read more
Working Through an Agent’s Critique Letter
Check out my guest post over at the Adventures in Children’s Publishing... read more
Miss Hurka: The First Writer I Ever Knew
Is there anyone whose books you loved? Anyone whose diary prompted you to pick... read more
My Interview with CHIME author Franny Billingsley!
Isn’t here! But wait. It’s just a click away over at THE... read more
Fantasy Worldbuilding: Part Two
Last week I wrote about backstory, worldbuilding as an element of character,... read more
Fantasy Worldbuilding: Part One
If you are working on a fantasy novel, these are a few questions you might ask... read more
Writing Superstitions, or How I Gave Up True Love with the Mailman to Become a Published Author
I don’t remember why I started it. Plenty of authors do it—or they did... read more
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