Kit Steinkellner

Kit Steinkellner is a playwright, screenwriter, and creative writing teacher. She also writes about books and reading  at Books Are My Boyfriends. Follow her onTwitter: @BooksAreMyBFs

I Haven’t Been to the Library in Almost a Year: A Story of Shame

I recently realized that I have not checked out a book from the library in close to a year. This ...

You are not fat, Bridget Jones. (an Open Letter)

Dear Bridget Jones, I hope it’s okay that I’m writing you an open letter. As two of your diaries are ...

Short Stories, You So Trendy: From Linked to Thematic

So, those of us with fingers pressed against the pulse of the book world know that linked short stories have ...

Is Snow White a Badass?

Unless you’re living under a pop-culture rock, you’re aware that the fairy tales are having a moment. On television, ABC’s ...

Charlie Bucket Syndrome

I have a manuscript. Let’s call it my Top Secret Mystery Prose Project, because the subject matter of the manuscript ...

Every Book I Read Needs to be at Least 50 Pages Shorter

I come to the world of books as a semi-fugitive from the world of film. I have an MFA in ...

When You Find Yourself Resembling an Antihero–A Confession

It was about a hundred pages into Lionel Schriver’s dazzling and terrifying 2003 novel We Need to Talk About Kevin ...

The Rocky Balboa School of Writing: Alex George

When I first heard the story behind the publication of Twilight, (Stephenie Meyer had a dream about vampires, wrote it ...

Book Club: A Web Series — A Review

A few days ago, an acquaintance posted a link on my Facebook wall. “You will LOVE,” she insisted. The link ...

Authors, Bloggers, and When the Internet Feels Like A Low-Budget Horror Movie

In the first half of this month, the Young Adult Internet Book World at times resembled a low budget horror ...