Talk with Doug about Revealers, Falling

RevealersYWP is beginning an exciting new Author Forums series and is starting with Doug Wilhelm -- noted author of The Revealers and Falling. He will be checking into the forums from time to time for the next three weeks. Have questions or comments for Doug? Go to the forums listed below. And please participate. YWP would like to have regular Author Forums, but we can't -- and won't -- if you don't participate. This is a great opportunity to talk with professionals about how they think of ideas, how they write, what problems they face. Click "Read More" for additional info and links.
Links to Forums: The Revealers FORUM .... Falling FORUM

Many of you have read the books or are reading them. If you haven't, I heartily encourage you to do so; both are powerful, real and well-written. The Revealers is a book about bullying: The novel for young adults, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, tells of three seventh graders who are being bullied for different reasons, and who set out to change their situation in a middle school where bullying and harassment run rampant. This story is based not only on Doug's own experiences, but on firsthand research in a number of middle schools.

FallingEveryone expected fifteen-year-old Matt Shaw to be Jeffords Junior High’s star basketball player. But Matt never went out for the team. He won’t even touch a ball anymore, and he hardly talks to anyone. No one understands why he’s changed, but Matt knows that it’s his “golden child” older brother who’s really been doing all the changing. Matt can’t imagine what would happen to his family if word got out about Neal’s drug habit and the strung-out strangers he’s seen coming and going from the house when their parents aren’t home. Matt can’t tell anyone what he knows – not his parents, not the police detective who refuses to leave him alone, not even Katie, the one girl he’s ever really had feelings for.

Please participate. We want to have this an ongoing feature of this Web site, but if you don't jump in, we won't continue them. Simple as that. So post some comments and questions on the forums, and then respond to Doug's answers when he gives them.

More links:

Revealers
• Chapter 1 of The Revealers
• Doug's Web site.
  Falling

• Chapter 1 of Falling
  General

• A published interview with Doug.
• Doug's advice on conquering your fear of writing.
• Doug's bio in his own words.