BOOKS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: CROSSOVER FICTION BY YA AUTHORS YA literature is a booming market, and some YA authors have become incredibly successful as crossover authors –– authors whose books appeal to wide and diverse audiences. Don’t miss this talk with YA sci fi/fantasy authors Erin Bow, James Bow, Lena Coakley, V.S. McGrath and L.E. Sterling … Continue reading
ASK ME ANYTHING #AMA @REDDIT BOOKS – WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH, 5 – 7 PM E.S.T. Bored? Looking for something to do tomorrow afternoon/evening? Well you can always stop by REDDIT BOOKS and chat with me live between 5 and 7 pm E.S.T. I’m answering questions on books, writing, the True Born Trilogy, future … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I penned the last sentence in the True Born Trilogy. Now that I’ve finished a draft of the third novel (whose title I’m not sure I’m at liberty to tell you yet – but book two, True North, is slated for release in April 2017) I feel like I’ve really … Continue reading
Dear Wattpad, In late December 2014, I was sitting in a hotel room in a foreign country by myself, pondering my future. Not just my future – the future of my books. All of my books. The books I’ve written, the books I’ve published, the books I’d half-written in my head but didn’t have time … Continue reading
Writing time can be as complex as a faerie riddle. I wrote a novel about fairies. The heroine Gigi is a sixteen year-old with a little faerie problem. Make that a big faerie problem. The other problem she faces is time. Time is a constant struggle in writing. Time changes everything: the fluidity of your … Continue reading
Truth be told, narrators pretty much determine the success of any novel. Good narrators will leave you spellbound to the worlds they weave. Poorly realized narrators, on the other hand, are like bad dates…regret, regret, regret. First person narrators have become the style of choice in the past twenty years or so. That’s because the … Continue reading
Describing what it felt like to stand on the lip of the ocean at sunset. Easy, right? You could probably go on for pages and pages. But what if you’re wrestling with a werewolf detective before the local vampire clan attacks? What if the assassin hired by Zob is about to level your building with … Continue reading
You dream of mermaids in a world of gilt jellyfish, girls who drop flowers and gemstones when they speak, men who battle monsters to rescue girls they have only seen in paintings. The world of your imagination is so beautiful, so luminous, it defies description. So why is it so hard to make it real … Continue reading
Description can be your best friend. Equally, it can be like that frenemy who talks about you behind your back and steals your boyfriend. I’ve been on both ends of this particular lesson. As a Master’s student in Creative Writing one of my teachers went so far as to indicate that I “overdid” description in … Continue reading
The most compelling part of any story – even more so than a good plot – is character. While plot can be imagined as the track by which a story moves from a to z, character is the engine of a story that takes the reader over every dip and bend and turn of the … Continue reading
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