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JLA Zoe Hana Mikuta Meet Zoe Zoe hails from Boulder, CO, and is a writer of young adult (YA) fiction. She is currently a student at the University of Washington-Seattle. Her debut novel, Gearbreakers (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2021), is a YA sci-fi that tells the story of two groups-at-war: the Windups—a charming nickname for hundred-foot-tallContinue reading “Meet W.’s Clients: Zoe”

Something completely unique in humans is this gravitation to create alternate worlds. In our childhoods, all of us were able to fabricate (complexly, at that) entirely separate realms that existed vividly—a way of constructing that came effortlessly. We created entire storylines and characters, fleshed out intricate scenes, and fought through the created conflict in aContinue reading “On Worldbuilding 1/?”

I cannot believe I am finally able to say this, but The Secret™ is Out: I’m going to be a published author!!! It’s been a long, nerve-racking, heart-wrenching journey, not yet over, but another step closer. My science fiction debut, GEARBREAKERS, my absolute heart, will be out 2021 with Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan. Get ready forContinue reading “Some News…”

This week started off the spring quarter at UW, and my schedule consists of all English classes, which makes me both excited and exhausted. Mostly because last quarter, I wrote around 60k words, which would normally be cause for celebration—if ~49k of those words weren’t attributed to my schoolwork. And this was only with aContinue reading “When Writing Isn’t Your Life”

It’s been around two months since I signed with my wonderful literary agent, Weronika Janczuk of D4EO Literary Agency. In that time, I: 1. Moved away from home 2. Entered my first year at UW 3. Gutted and edited a significant chunk of my manuscript 4. Wrote the full synopses for the following two booksContinue reading “Writers Don’t Eat Cake”