If you want to be the type of middle-grade writer who creates books with characters who feel like real people, and transports kids out of their own world and into the imaginary one you have created in such a way that they lose themselves and actually feel some sort of grief when the book ends… … then you need to start with understanding who middle-grade readers are, in general, and who the ideal reader is for YOUR book. In this episode, I cover: reasons why it's important to get t...