by Adventures in YA Publishing | May 31, 2014 | Imported from AYAP
You know how girls go all crazy when they see someone like Justin Timberlake or Harry Styles? The screaming, the swooning, the fangirling… That’s kind of how I am when someone brings up the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor. The... by Jan Lewis | May 30, 2014 | Imported from AYAP
Jill Corcoran blogged about ways to activate your story, using Gayle Forman’s novel, If I Stay, as an example of a great beginning. She wrote: Gayle does not start the book at the moment of the car crash. We first see the family together, we actually fall... by Jan Lewis | May 29, 2014 | Imported from AYAP
Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette Building a Better Novel Premise Last week while...
by Adventures in YA Publishing | May 28, 2014 | Imported from AYAP
Elsie Chapman is a YA author who debuted last year and hails from my area of BC, and for me, there is something that is so cool about having such an amazing author come from a place that is so close to you. DUALED showed up on shelves last year and blew readers out of...
by Martina Boone | May 27, 2014 | Imported from AYAP
I’m off to BEA on Thursday, so I’m actually very nervous. The idea of autographing Compulsion is surreal, because I’ve never even been to BEA as a reader. And trust me, I am first and foremost a reader. There’s no denying that. I’m going...
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