Fresh Reads 2017

by Maria V. Snyder, Gena Showalter, Erin Watt

Get 2017 sorted with extracts from these awesome young adult books.

Roshani Chokshi - The Star-Touched Queen
Maria V. Snyder - Dawn Study
Gena Showalter - Lifeblood
Tonya Alexandra - The Impossible Story of Olive in Love
Kady Cross - Vigilante
Erin Watt - When It's Real

#FreshReads2017

Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

When Maria V. Snyder was younger, she aspired to be a storm chaser in the American Midwest so she attended Pennsylvania State University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology. Much to her chagrin, forecasting the weather wasn’t in her skill set so she spent a number of years as an environmental meteorologist, which is not exciting...at all. Bored at work and needing a creative outlet, she started writing fantasy and science fiction stories. Over twenty four novels and two short story collections later, Maria’s learned a thing or three about writing. She’s been on the New York Times bestseller list, won a dozen awards, and has earned her Masters of Arts degree in Writing from Seton Hill University, where she is now a faculty member.

Her favorite color is red. She loves dogs, but is allergic, instead she has a big black tom cat named…Kitty (apparently naming cats isn’t in her skill set either). Maria also has a husband and two children who are an inspiration for her writing when they aren't being a distraction. Note: She mentions her cat before her family.

When she's not writing she's either playing pickleball, traveling, or taking pictures. Being a writer, though is a ton of fun. Where else can you take fencing lessons, learn how to ride a horse, study marital arts, learn how to pick a lock, take glass blowing classes and attend Astronomy Camp and call it research? Maria will be the first one to tell you it's not working as a meteorologist.

Readers are welcome to check out her website for book excerpts, free short stories, maps, blog, and her schedule at http://www.MariaVSnyder.com.

Reviews

[Aimee Ferguson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not even sure if you can give something like this a rating, so I'm going for a solid three, to cover the chapters I enjoyed reading, and the ones that didn't grab me as much. I'm not sure why I am surprised that something like this (a collection of first chapters and author tidbits) exists, honestly, but when I found it at the little free library in Melbourne I was pretty excited. Am half writing this review so that I remember to check these ones out, because now that I've started all these books I have questions...