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Tag: young adult fiction

  • Blast from the Past: Rage Against the Darkness

    Blast from the Past: Rage Against the Darkness

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    This is an essay related to yesterday’s post, and I will finish up with the theme tomorrow.  As a girl, I was kicked in the chest by a horse. He wasn’t very big, but neither was I, and the next thing I remember is looking up at the blue sky wondering how the world had…

  • Launch Day!

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    The God’s Wolfling is now available in ebook and print for purchase! I hope you enjoy this book, it was a long time coming, and a challenge for me. With Vulcan’s Kittens, I was told to channel my inner 14-year old girl, to which I responded “But I wasn’t a normal teenage girl!” Well, when…

  • I’m Lucky

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    My earlier posts on questionable books for young people didn’t get me the kind of abuse this woman has received. Go read her article – it’s good, and obviously she can use some support. Here’s a quote from Megan Fox: “Page 38 of David Zimmerman’s Caring is Creepy (a book that won the 2012 American Library Association…

  • How to Write Realist YA: Part 2

    How to Write Realist YA: Part 2

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    Once again, I am joined by my unnamed guest blogger in the final part of his insightful article on the problems besetting young adult fiction. I deeply appreciate all the effort he has put into writing this, and no, really, this isn’t me. I’d be bragging if it was! You can find the first part…

  • Teen Week Blog Hop with Special Guest!

    Teen Week Blog Hop with Special Guest!

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        Please welcome Kim Mutch Emerson, author of teen read Digitus 233.  Why do you think Teen Read Week is important? It is important to me that we keep quality literature an option for all readers and that includes teenagers or young adults. Teen Read Week helps promote that end. How do you think…

  • YA Blog Hop

    YA Blog Hop

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    What are you working on right now? I am working on a couple of projects. One is a short story about a young man, and his new puppy… on a spaceship traveling between planets. Housebreaking, er, ship training? has a whole new set of challenges for my resourceful hero. The other is the sequel to…

  • Troll Valley

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    Troll Valley Lars Walker’s books are endlessly interesting, well-researched, and I know I will enjoy them. This one is a young adult novel, and after my post on According to Hoyt today, I feel the need to promote some good reads for young people. His protagonist doesn’t have an easy life, with a physical disability,…

  • Rage Against the Darkness

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    I did a guest post for Sarah Hoyt at According to Hoyt, in which I lose my cool, because children ought to be allowed to remain innocent, not have it torn away from them and be force-fed filth, no matter how “relevant” you think it is.