I met Ashley at last year’s Utopiacon, and this year, I watched her work miracles as a conference volunteer. Her book OUR SONG explores what happens when people lose their identity within a relationship, and it’s a story that will keep readers turning pages. Becca:I broke up with Trip four months ago. But with the […]
This post will be brief, since I just completed a long drive from Southern California. The reason? I went to place I’d always wanted to go–The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It was an amazing day. The butterbeer was perfect. All three of us got chosen for wand fittings (*gasp*) and we learned a password […]
I met Amalie Howard at this year’s UtopiaCon, and she was kind enough to grant me my first video interview. She discusses her wonderful books, in addition to her experience with agents and marketing. Have a look! For more on Amalie and her books (including her Aquarthi series), you can visit her website, http://www.amaliehoward.com. Alpha […]
I think Kevin Smith is one of the most inspirational people on the planet. You can like Kevin Smith, or dislike him, but you can’t deny that he has made himself. He demonstrates that you can put yourself out there, in whatever iteration you want, and say what you think about the world. (Language NSFW.) […]
I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah at Barnes and Noble’s B-Fest, and the way she pitched her novel SINKING made me want to read it immediately: Jocelyn washes up on the shore of eighteenth century Ireland, alone, naked, and missing all of her memories. Taken in by a lonely old woman full of plots […]
Many aspiring authors are afraid of putting their ideas out there, in case their concepts might be stolen by others. I used to have this fear too, but eventually, the more I wrote, I realized that concepts in and of themselves can be familiar, and all we do is put our unique twists on them. […]
I had the fortune of meeting Wendy and getting to know her new book at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. Needless to say, I bought EVERLAND immediately, and was instantly drawn in: London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived are children, among them Gwen […]
Embarrassingly enough, when I first met Jessica Taylor, I mistook her for someone else. Thankfully, she was extremely nice about it, and when we reconnected a few years later, I was happy to learn that her book WANDERING WILD had made it out into the world: Raised by Wanderers, sixteen-year-old Tal travels the roads of […]
When I heard the premise for Stephanie Diaz’s Extraction series, I was immediately hooked; I’ve already read the first, and can’t wait to get a hold of the rest. Here’s a glimpse: BOOK 1: EXTRACTIONClementine has spent her whole life preparing for her sixteenth birthday, when she’ll be tested for Extraction in the hopes of […]
I first got to know Aimee through a Facebook group for YA authors, and I was especially intrigued by her book, EVERY UGLY WORD, and how it addressed bullying in high schools. Have a look: When seventeen-year-old Ashley Watson walks through the halls of her high school bullies taunt and shove her. She can’t go […]