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I’m so honored/excited/bouncing up and down to be on the Cybils for my 4th year. Like last year, I’m on the YA Fantasy & Science Fiction 2nd round. Congrats to my fellow SFF round 2s: Anne Levy Cybils Aurora Celeste YASFF Blog Kimberly Francisco STACKED Julie Jurgens Hi Miss Julie … Continue reading
Six intersecting stories, from a mid-19th century ship in the South Pacific to a post-WWI European castle to 1970s California to modern-day England to future Korea to even-further-future Hawaii. The characters are all connected mysteriously… or maybe not so much. The stories interrupt each other along the way to the … Continue reading
If you could make all the students in grades 8-12 (plus faculty) at an all-girls prep school read one book, what would it be? Rules: It can be fiction or non-, all one author or essays by multiple authors, on just about any subject. It should be available in paperback … Continue reading
Briony Larkin is a witch. Her stepmother told her so before she died, a death for which Briony feels responsible. Briony’s youthful temper and magic also caused her twin sister Rose to be developmentally disabled. Briony avoids the swamp and the Old Ones that call to her, sullenly cares for … Continue reading
The audiobook giveaway ended yesterday. And the winners are… Grace S wins Dreamland. Susan wins All These Things I’ve Done. Congratulations, and thanks for entering, everyone!
A friend just shared with me the art of Thomas Doyle, which I share with you because every sculpture I click on has me writing a new twisted YA post-apocalyptic/dystopian novel in my head. For instance, this. Or oh god, this. Sometimes they’re zombie novels. Yeesh.
Rory, a small-town Louisiana girl, is about to start her senior year of high school at a boarding school in London. Not just any school, though — this one is right in the middle of the legendary Jack the Ripper’s hunting grounds. When a copycat killer strikes, Rory’s school is … Continue reading
You still have 5 more days to enter the audiobook giveaway contest! Win audiobooks of To enter, just comment below. Add a link if you post this on your blog or tweet it (+1 to the drawing). And if you will add these to your public or school library’s collection, … Continue reading
Macmillan was kind enough to send me not one but two audiobooks, and so I get to have my very first giveaway! At stake are the audiobooks of: Gabrielle Zevin’s latest, All These Things I’ve Done, which I adored. Practical, responsible Russian mafiya daughter falls for the son of New … Continue reading
I just read “Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity” (posted by a friend on, yes, Google Reader). You don’t need to bother; it’s yet another “I took an internet break and realized that the internet is eating my life” essay. But she quotes data (which may … Continue reading
