**I’m updating this post because it perfectly answers YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday question: What was the best book you read in September? I can’t wait eat up all the juicy suggestions from fellow readers! I mentioned last week that I would save the review for White Cat for another time, and here it is!...

Why the Publishing Industry Isn’t Dying One of the great things about my writing conference last month was talking about great YA books with other people who love YA books. So here are two lessons I need to mark down as learned. 1. When someone who loves the same books you do says you have...

Back in June, an article in The Wall Street Journal caused a stir in the world of young adult fiction. (You can read it here.) I follow what goes on in that universe because I mainly read YA books, and I’m writing one. Most everyone with an online presence in the YA world had something...