Hello everyone. Sorry it has been a while. We’ve had some technical and personal difficulties these past couple of months, but we’re trying to get back on track. We’re jump-starting our return to posting with a giveaway to clear my shelves. This giveaway is of 10 ARCs of young adult books with 2017 release dates….
The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan: Giveaway
Thanks to Disney-Hyperion for providing a copy of the book and The Dark Prophecy-themed prize-pack products to review and give away. All views are my own. Since Apollo is the God of Music, Poetry, and the Sun, we are rounding up some summer essentials to have on hand for good summer reading. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite:…
Everything, Everything Movie Swag Giveaway
Thanks to Warner Bros. and my friends at Allied Integrated Marketing, we’re giving away an Everything, Everything movie swag prize pack (including heart-shaped sticky notes, phone cover, zipped bag, and tote bag) to a lucky reader. To enter, you must have a U.S. address (sorry international friends) and leave a comment here or through our…
Literary Crush: Jefferson from The Gold Seer Trilogy
Our last Literary Crush was Chase from Some of the Parts by Hannah Barnaby, and today we bring you Jefferson from The Gold Seer Trilogy: Walk on Earth a Stranger and Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson. Yes, I’m waiting anxiously for the third and final book in The Gold Seer trilogy, Into the…
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real Blog Tour
We don’t cover a whole lot of middle-grade on the blog, so when we do, it’s for a good reason. In this case, there are several. One is that my son, who is 9, absolutely loved this book. Another is that I think Craig Robinson is one of the funniest comedians working in showbiz. And…
Letters to the Lost Blog Tour: You’ve Got Mail
You’ve Got Mail! Earlier this year I ended up reading four books, including LETTERS TO THE LOST, that centered around a teen couple getting to know each other via “letters.” Some of the stories very clearly had a You’ve Got Mail/Shop Around the Corner vibe, and others were simply epistolary love stories, but still, it…
Stranger Than Fanfiction Giveaway
We’re thrilled to partner with Little, Brown to promote author-actor Chris Colfer’s latest book, Stranger than Fanfiction. Since the characters in Stranger than Fanfiction are die-hard fans of a hit teen sci-fi show called Wiz Kids, we’ve got some recommendations for you based on particular television fandoms. If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones,…
Why I Still Care About Diversity in YA
I originally wrote this at the beginning of the year when a friend asked a bunch of us to share an issue we were passionate about for a story. It turned out she only needed a paragraph. Here’s what I wrote. We’ve all got issues close to our hearts. One of mine continues to be…
Six Books I Liked More Than I Thought I Would
I’m doing this week’s Top Ten Tuesday based on books I’ve read in the past year; I couldn’t get past six, but here are my examples. Sometimes I read a book because my friends all hyped it, but I don’t really think I’m going to love it, and then I do — or at the…
Edge of Everything Blog Tour: Jeff Giles Q&A
We are so excited to be the latest stop on the blog tour for “The Edge of Everything” by Jeff Giles. It was easy to say “YES!” when we were asked to participate, because as it turns out, Jeff is not only an impressive debut YA novelist, but he was once upon a time an…