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...

Every Wednesday, the writers at YA Highway ask a reading or writing related question, aptly named Road Trip Wednesday. This week’s question: What are your writing and publishing super powers? — and what’s your kryptonite? Sticky notes. Sticky notes are my secret weapon and my writing super power. I use them on plot boards. I...

This post started out with one idea, but ended up with me in a state of reflection. I read Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins in just over 24 hours. I wasn’t really going for a review, but I wanted to give a quick shout of love. This book has lots of...

Every Wednesday, the writers at YA Highway ask a reading or writing related question, aptly named Road Trip Wednesday. In honor of November as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), today YA Highway asks: What kind of writing coach do you need? When you have to coach friends, what kind of coach are you? First of...

Yay! It’s finally time for Fall Book Club! Thank you to Tracey at Words on Paper for hosting this awesome blog discussion. October’s book was Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is fresh, different, and exciting. I’ve never read anything quite like it. These qualities make it a...

Every Wednesday, the writers at YA Highway ask a reading or writing related question, aptly named Road Trip Wednesday. This week’s question: What was the best book you read in October? Well, let me say first I’m blogging as part of Tracey Neithercott’s Fall Book Club, and our reactions to Daughter of Smoke and Bone...

Road Trip Wednesday on YA Highway asks a reading or writing related question each week, and invites bloggers to give their own unique perspectives. This week’s question: What’s your numero-uno reason for writing? Writing gives me a voice. A few nights ago, my family was sitting around a fire outside. My boys wanted to tell...

I had planned to spend today’s blog raving about Mutemath, which I will do in a moment. But because I read and write in the YA world, I have to mention the whole mess with the National Book Awards. (Long story short: Lauren Myracle’s Shine was announced as being nominated and then removed from the...

I’m not a big fan of birthdays, but this year was pretty sweet. I had a date at my favorite French restaurant, and I finally saw the final Harry Potter. (Believe it or not, HP was still showing at our theater a month before it comes to DVD. And the theater was still half-full.) My...

Every Wednesday, the fine folks over at YA Highway post a writing or reading related question, aptly named Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s question: What has your writing road trip looked like so far? I love to read. In college, I couldn’t imagine majoring in anything other than English. I longed for a career that would...