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Today I’m happy to welcome Sarah Cross to my blog, to answer a few questions about her recently released debut novel Dull Boy. I am extra-excited about this book because it’s about SUPERHEROS! As a girl who with a closet full of comic books I have been eager to get my hands on a copy of Dull Boy ever since I read the synopsis. And check out the amazing cover! Look, her name is in comic book font and everything.

I only recently picked up a copy for myself, so I’ll be coming back later with my own

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I had a writing epiphany yesterday, and like most of my writing epiphanies, it’s something relatively basic I just never took the time to think about until now.

It started as I was struggling over a new chapter in my circus book. The MC has (almost) hit rock-bottom, having recently screwed a number of things up in her life and learned some things about her past that she didn’t like. Now she needs to go obtain a piece of information that will progress the external plot to the next stage. The infor

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Today I’m happy to welcome Danielle Joseph to my blog, to answer a few questions about her recently released debut novel Shrinking Violet.

Q: Tell us about a scene or character from your novel that was especially easy (or especially difficult) to write.

A: It was hard to write the character, Delilah, Tere’s mother. She can be petty cut throat and I felt bad for Tere at times while writing the intense scenes with her mother.

Q: What is your favorite (or one of your favorite) myths or fairy-tales,

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Here’s a few little happy newsy bits for this sunny (where I am, at least) Monday morning:

I am amused and diverted and honored to find FORTUNE’S FOLLY on this list of Summer Reading Books, in the section “For the Wannabe Princesss”. I am looking forward to my own summer reading, which I hope to start off with a book-reading blitz just as soon as I finish this draft of the circus book. I have some wonderful memories of long lazy summer days as a kid, when I could spend the whole day reading if I

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I’ve been thinking a bit lately about how grateful I am for the plethora of interesting, cool and just plain neat stuff you can find on the internet. I was looking back at my reading log from a few years ago (before I discovered book blogs) when I found new books by randomly stumbling across them at the library or bookstore, or by the occasional recommendation of a friend. I did a lot of re-reading back then, because I just wasn’t finding a lot I wanted to read.

Nowdays my to-read list is ginorm

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Today I’m happy to welcome Cindy Pon to my blog, to answer a few questions about her recently released debut novel Silver Phoenix.

But first, check out the beautiful cover! I try not to judge a book by its cover but this is definitely one of my favorites this year. Such beautiful colors! I love how it conveys the strength and determination of the main character, Ai Ling.

I have to admit that I am posting this entry a day late, and part of the reason for that is that I’m right in the middle of

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How to fail at bringing cupcakes to your first Library Book Club visit:

1. Plan for two months to make cute mini nut-cakes like the ones in your book to bring to your first meeting with real readers who do not work with you, are not friends with you, and are not related to you.
2. Purchase ingredients for cute mini nut-cakes so you can bake them the night before the meeting.
3. Decide at 7PM the night before the meeting that it’s too dangerous to make nut-cakes, because what if someone has a nut al

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Those of you who have an interest in Victorian Fantasy and Steampunk might be interested in this recent post by author R. L. LaFevers on The Enchanted Inkpot. I personally am really looking forward to Scott Westerfeld’s forthcoming Leviathan. Here’s the description from Goodreads: In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disg

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Today I’m happy to welcome J. E. MacLeod to my blog, to answer a few questions about her recently released debut novel Waiting to Score.

Q: Tell us about a scene or character from your novel that was especially easy (or especially difficult) to write.

A: I really can’t say exactly what it was, but if you’ve read the book and you are really curious, shoot me an email and I’ll tell you. It was a tough scene, but explained a lot about two important secondary characters and why they were the way they

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Today I’m happy to welcome Cheryl Renee Herbsman to my blog, to answer a few questions about her recently released debut novel Breathing.

I had the chance to read an ARC of this book a few weeks ago. Here’s what I said on goodreads:

I have to admit I roll my eyes a little at the depictions in a lot of books and movies of two teens finding each other and acting as if they are soul-mates destined to be together forever. But there’s another part of me that desperately wants to believe that it’s poss

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