Six years into my journey as a “published YA author,” I have accomplished the following: BOOK-WISE Published a “quiet” debut novel, AUDITION, 2011. Worked myself to the bone blog-touring, live-touring and otherwise promoting AUDITION. Paid my
Tag: contemporary YA lit
Happy Book Birthday to the talented and hilarious Gretchen McNeil. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy of her latest novel, a clever, witty, stereotype-twisting delight! But you don’t need to take my recommendation. Here’s the stellar
Who is lost? Can they be found? Who can find them? Do yourself the kindness of reading about Mads, Billy, their search for a path to life beyond family pain and grief, and the compass revealed inside
I just watched a CNN documentary called “Being 13: Inside the Secret World of Teens.” Short form: Kids use their phones too much and often unwisely. While my first thought was that social media could not
After reading, and loving, DEVOTED in preparation for a writing retreat, something joggled in my brain and I pulled a title from my sorrily epic TBR pile: THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST. What a read-beside pair! Both
School has begun which, for me, means waiting in parking lots, carpool lanes, for soccer games to start and buses to arrive. So, my must-have car accessory is BOOKS! Right now, it’s these:
Wonderful writers @SarahKKohut @cuppajolie Sara Nickerson, theamazing author of the upcomingTHE SECRETS OF BROTHERS,BLUEBERRIES, MOOSE Y& MEDutton BFYR June 2015 I love Jessi Kirby’s beautiful contemporary YA novels and this one is no exception. Unique, compelling,
I’m celebrating National Poetry Month by giving some stuff away, beginning with a book! Look out for more fun mid-month! Goodreads Book Giveaway The Sound of Letting Go by Stasia Ward Kehoe Giveaway ends May 03,
March brings us three fascinating new books that move away from the popular first-person-present and linear narrative formats so popular in YA literature these days (my own included, so that’s not a dis!). Sarah Tomp’s second-person
The two top titles on my TBR this month both, intriguingly, involve the word BREAK in some form. With my own preferences clearly showing, both are contemporary, stand-alone YAs that involve words–in one case, poetry, in