I’m holding in my hands the very first real books that I had a part in bringing to publication. It’s pretty cool to open the covers to read the words/ paragraphs/ scenes that I critiqued for Young Adult author Nicole O’Dell shortly after we hooked up within a larger crit group last summer. She’s got…
Curse of the Spider King is the first in a fantasy trilogy for middle grade readers. It’s cowritten by Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper, both of whom have books of their own out as well. The Berinfell Prophecies is a series about seven 13-year olds from various parts of Earth who find each other…
I’ve recently read Beyond Corista, which is a science fiction YA novel by Robert Elmer. It’s the third book in The Shadowside Trilogy; I think Elmer did a pretty good job of making it quite possible to read book three without having read the first two. However, I’m sure it would make a lot more…
So today it is time for my infamous practice of posting the first few paragraphs of a novel and picking them apart. We’ll get that over with first. Here is the opening of Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow: It was the last day of school and I was running for my life….
What is Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow actually about? Strange visions…hideous monsters…startling revelations…Hunter Brown never expected a summer like this, and it’s only getting started! After one of his infamous pranks backfires, Hunter unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient book and key. Little does he know the mysterious book is…
This month the CSFF Blog Tour is touring another YA fantasy book. I share my novels with several families with teens and tweens so I’m not generally against reading these books and talking about them, though I’d prefer more adult-oriented novels for me. When I opened the package containing Hunter Brown and the Secret of…