After writing more than one hundred books, it still amazes me that I have been lucky enough to spend most of my life doing what I truly love: writing. What makes a writer? The desire to tell a story...

Walter Dean Myers is the New York Times bestselling author of Monster , the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award, the current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and...

Myers offers a wealth of advice that is professional and pragmatic and often couched in the context of his own work...Feeling that books saved his life, Myers now gives his readers the same opportunity through his advice and his largehearted example.”