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 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...
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...
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...
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 am happy to report that I’m currently reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, thanks to the many great suggestions I found on last week’s Road Trip Wednesday on YA Highway. It is the first book I purchased on the (gasp) Nook color I got for my birthday. If you’ve read my blog before,...
