How is it possible that this is my first post of 2012? Is it just me, or is this year already flying by? I don’t want to talk about reflection on the past year (been there, done that) or resolutions for the new one (already broken). Instead my first post of the year is about...

Welcome to the last day of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. This has been so much fun, and I’ve added way too many books to my to-be-read list for 2012. Today we chose Best in Show: Favorite Cover: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. This...

Welcome to Day 3 of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. (Thanks ladies!) Today the categories are Elements of Fiction. And the awards go to: Most Envy-Inducing Plot: Divergent by Veronica Roth. This is a tough one, because you couldn’t have the plot in Divergent...

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. (Thanks ladies!) Today’s picks are for the Popularity Contest. Without further ado… Class Clown: Percy Jackson from Son of Neptune –An oldy but goody, Percy still keeps me entertained seven books into the series....

Welcome to the 2011 YA Superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. (Thanks ladies!) As I looked back over the books I read in 2011, most were not new releases. That narrowed my playing field a bit, so I’ve only chosen a few of the categories each day. If...

Welcome to YA Highway’s 110th Road Trip Wednesday! Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. This Week’s Topic: Where do you buy most of your books? I wasn’t planning to chime in today, but this one is pretty short...

I’ve been a little absent from the Interwebs recently. It’s easy to click and read with one hand, but more of a challenge to type comments or posts. I’ll be back soon, with a slew of end-of-the-year book reviews, but I’m muddling through this post left handed to give a little personal update. I am...

It’s time for Road Trip Wednesday! Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. This Week’s Topic: How far would you go to get published? I’ll be short and sweet today. I’m willing to put in the work....

I have a confession to make. Sometimes when people ask me what I’m reading, I hesitate before answering. For some reason, I feel like I need to explain why I’m reading a young adult novel, when I have not, in fact, been a ‘young’ adult for many years. And then, I feel guilty for explaining....

Every Wednesday, the writers at YA Highway ask a reading or writing related question, aptly named Road Trip Wednesday. This week’s question: In high school, teens are made to read the classics – Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Bronte, Dickens – but there are a lot of books out there never taught in schools. So if you had...