• THE CONJUROR’S CURSE: A YA/Upper MG Book Review by Georgie Bartlett

    REVIEW **The following repost is from Carol Baldwin’s wonderful blog where she discusses all things literary! Thank you, Carol, for letting me share Georgie Bartlett’s great reviews of THE CONJUROR’S CURSE: A YA/Upper MG Book! The Conjuror’s Curse (Monarch: 2022) by Stephanie Cotta is an epic fantasy set in the fictional world of Mestria. We follow seventeen-year-old Rowan as he struggles with…

  • A STUDY IN TERMINAL: A YA THRILLER BY KARA LINABURG

    A STUDY IN TERMINAL: A YA THRILLER BY KARA LINABURG **The following repost is from Carol Baldwin’s wonderful blog where she discusses all things literary! Thank you, Carol, for letting me share Amanda Moyer’s great reviews of  A STUDY IN TERMINAL: A YA THRILLER BY KARA LINABURG!  Please welcome Amanda Moyer, my guest blogger for a review of Kara Linaburg‘s suspenseful…

  • WHISPERING THROUGH WATER: Two Reviews of Rebecca Wheeler’s Debut Young Adult Novel

    **The following repost is from Carol Baldwin’s wonderful blog where she discusses all things literary! Thank you, Carol, for letting me share both your and Mara Scudder’s great reviews of  WHISPERING THROUGH WATER Rebecca Wheeler! In this blog post, I’m trying something new. Teen reviewer Mara Scudder and I both read Rebecca Wheeler‘s book, Whispering Through Water (Monarch Educational Services, 2023) and we each wanted to…

  • 22nd Free “Dear Lucky Agent” Contest: Contemporary and Literary Young Adult

    New FREE contest for writers of Young Adult Judged by agent Andrea Morrison of Writers House, via Chuck Sambuchino. Check out the details here: http://tinyurl.com/z7e9rsc  

  • Free Fall Friday – July First Page Results

    Originally posted on Writing and Illustrating: Natalie Lakosil, Agent Natalie is an agent at the Bradford Literary Agency. An honors graduate of the University of San Diego, California, Natalie holds a B.A. in Literature/Writing. After nearly four years at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency and a brief dabble in writing author profiles and book reviews…

  • Warming Up to Illustration – An Interview with Laura Diehl

    Laura Diehl is a Northern Virginia based freelance illustrator who specializes in the genres of children’s/YA illustration, fantasy illustration and science fiction illustration. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Emphasis in Illustration, from James Madison University in 2006. All of her images are hand-painted digitally using a large, sun-warmed, Wacom Intuos and…

  • A Magical Interview with Adult and YA Author Ruth Knafo Setton

    Do you have a favorite place to write? After many years of scrambling to create a space to write, I’ve finally been blessed with a room of my own—a study I’ve filled with magical pictures, books and amulets given by friends, and best of all, a window through which I see trees and sky.  What…