Last week Alison Miller tagged me in the Writer’s on Writing blog hop, and today’s my day! You can check out her blog here. Thanks, Alison! 1. What are you working on?My work-in-progress is a YA contemporary about a girl with a disabled father and a mother in prison. She’s done a fine job taking...
It’s been forever since I checked in with YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday. This week the topic is simple and perfect for what’s been on my mind: What are you reading right now?I’m still reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. At about halfway through, that’s slow reading for me. I’ve been itching to talk about...
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop hosted by the lovely Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk. Please check out their blogs to join in the fun! What I’m ReadingI just started Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. I love Donna Tartt. To anyone exploring the realm of New Adult, I highly recommend her first novel The...
Welcome, readers! I lucked out by securing a spot in “The Writer’s Voice,” a multi-blog, multi-agent contest hosted by Brenda Drake, Mónica Bustamante Wagner, Kimberly P. Chase, and Elizabeth Briggs. You can find more info on any of their websites. If you’re one of the judges, thank you so much for this opportunity! This entry is for my YA...
What’s Up Wednesday is a blog hop created and hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk to connect and encourage writers. Please visit their blogs to join in the fun! Click here to buy it locally through Indie Bound WHAT I’M READING This week I’m reading Cherry Money Baby by author and agent extraordinaire John...
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk. Please check out their blogs to join in the fun! What I’m ReadingA few years overdue, I just finished Maggie Stiefvater’s Forever. I’ve said it before, but Stiefvater is an amazing writer. She has a talent for fleshing out characters and writing multi-sensory descriptions. But the...
I am so thrilled to join What’s Up Wednesday for the first time! WUW is a weekly blog hop developed by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk to help writers connect with each other. If you’d like to join, too, please drop by Jaime’s blog to add your post to the list! What I’m Reading… Buy...
I recently read a popular book by an award winning author. It was terrible. I’m choosing not to name the book, because I realize that my opinion is just that. But that experience, the one of having high expectations for a book and having them fall utterly and completely flat, has affected me as both...
We constantly make comparisons. To describe. To explain. To just make sense of the world. This week, I’ve wondered if perhaps we doth compareth too much. Instance #1: I’d finished reading Sarah J. Maas’s sequel to Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight. I enjoyed it, and I felt the pacing and character development were stronger than the first. (See? Already...
Well, hello 2014. Nice to meet you. The second half of 2013 chewed me up and spit me out like a stick of Juicy Fruit. In 2014 I am determined to find my way back to the things that make me, well, me. Some health issues have made it difficult to read and write these past...
