YALLWrite: Fantastic Fantasy and Astonishing Adventure

Sponsored by Riveted
How do you build a world for middle grade readers, establish magic, and supernatural phenomena, avoid info dumps and engaged middle grade readers with the wildest flights of your imagination? How do you keep your fiction grounded in the emotional reality of being a middle grade person, when you're casting them far from the reality they know? Basically, how do you make stuff up and make it feel real?
Moderated by Soman Chainani with John August, Sayantani DasGupta, Kwame Mbalia and Claribel A. Ortega