It seems like everyone is wondering what the next big trend in YA will be. First it was witches and wizards, and then vampires, and then angels had a turn.
What’s trending now? Why, oppressive societies, of course! Books like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Matched explore a deeply-rooted fear in young and old readers alike: ...
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Read from the beginning
Dominique had seen it all; she’d been near the front. Queen Skyla had almost fainted! She was barely fit to be queen. Dominique was willing to deal with the media—she didn’t panic when the media surrounded her and asked her questions; a few photographers had taken her picture when they thought she ...
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Well, it's all over now.
Am I a little sad that it's over? A little, but I've been so busy with Woulds & Shoulds that sometimes it's hard to give my fiction writing a second thought! It's a struggle sometimes to balance my personal writing and my editing/design work; they're so closely related that often I ...
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Blue Sky Days, by Marie Landry
A year after graduating from high school, nineteen-year-old Emma Ward feels lost. She has spent most of her life trying to please her frigid, miserable mother - studying hard, getting good grades, avoiding the whole teenage rebellion thing - and now she feels she has no identity beyond that. Because ...
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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