Happy Happy Book Birthday to the rad Sarah Nicole Smetana, whose debut is out in the world today! Also, I'm reading it and it's PHENOMENAL. You should stop by Sarah's website to spy all the cool talk and a round up of the insane media coverage this amazing book has been getting. I read one of these posts at Germ Magazine and it's fascinating (also she was electrocuted)! This voice-driven coming-of-age YA novel is perfect for fans of Katie Cotugno and Playlist for the Dead. Susannah Hayes has never been in the spotlight, but she dreams of following her father[...]
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0 EDIT: Pizza Anthology submission due date has been extended to March 18, 2016. Happy National Pizza Day! There's no better day to announce this, so here we go! Do you love pizza? Do you love YA? Do you like to YA while you pizza or pizza while you YA? Well, my friend, you are in the right place at the pizza-iest time. Because I am looking for submissions for a YA pizza anthology. There are a few rules, which I'll get to below. But first, a moment of pizza please. ^ I trust her ^ Yes I do if there is pizza. ^ Pizza Shimmy ^ That one's for Bri[...]
Okay. First off, I have just read your new favorite book. Have you heard of Seriously Wicked by Tina Connolly? I've actually never read anything from Tina Connolly before but I can assure you that now, I'll be reading pretty much everything that shoots from this woman's fingers. Let me give you the details... About the Book SERIOUSLY WICKED by Tina Connolly The only thing worse than being a witch is living with one. Camellia’s adopted mother wants Cam to grow up to be just like her. Problem is, Mom’s a seriously wicked witch. Cam’s used to stopping the wit[...]
SWEET MADNESS, September 18, 2015 from Merit Press Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty one. Who was Lizzie Borden? A confused young woman, or a cold-hearted killer? For generations, people all over the world have wondered how Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, met their gruesome deaths. Lizzie, Andrew’s younger daughter, was charged, but a jury took only 90 minutes to find her not guilty. In this retelling, the family maid, Bridget Sullivan, shines a compassionate light on[...]
Hi everyone! Happy Monday! Only five more days until Halloween! Eep! So far we've had some amazing authors on the Trick-or-Treat Chronicles. In case you missed it, at first we had Kim Harrington, then Judith Graves, and Tessa Gratton. Today we have a very special guest. She's written just about a bazillion books and all of them have incredible ratings on Amazon and Goodreads. Somehow I was living under a rock and had only heard of Susan for the first time this year when I read her novel Very Bad Things. It literally blew my mind. Very Bad Things is a fantastic Y[...]