The girl who became the greatest wizard of all I first wrote the Worldweavers series as a trilogy published by Harper Collins. It told the story of the girl who…Continue readingHelp me bring back a great series
The Were Chronicles: “Random”, “Wolf”, “Shifter” At a certain level, the line between YA and adult literature becomes so fine as to be totally irrelevant. Yes, there are always some…Continue readingYA and the ‘Real World’
Children’s Book Week – June 12-16 When books were just books When I was growing up, there was no such thing as “young adult” as a marketing niche. In my…Continue readingJust what is YA?
How Thea Winthrop became the world’s greatest wizard Back in 2002, back when Harry Potter WAS the YA genre – (Number One, and then twenty empty spaces behind it before the…Continue readingGirls can. Girls SHOULD
It’s YA; aren’t you embarrassed to be caught with that book? First of all… repeat after me: “There is no such thing as ‘YA LITERATURE‘.” There isn’t. Not really. Not…Continue readingDON’T READ THAT!
I’ve seen several reading lists floating around, most of specific titles, a few consisting of interesting categories…and not so interesting categories. An example of the latter is “a book by…Continue readingUp to a challenge?
Rivers have always been very important to humankind, I say in the intro to my anthology, River. They’ve been called gods. They’ve been blessed and cursed and venerated and used…Continue readingRIVER
I wanted them real. I wanted the reader to start glancing nervously at the person sitting next to them on the bus or the subway and starting to wonder whether…Continue readingIs she a Werewolf? or a Wereboy?
I’ll be at “The Author visits” all week, the first stop on a blog tour for Random, the first book in The Were Chronicles, my new YA series. There will…Continue readingA short story? Hell no!