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I still remember the first time I spoke to someone about the idea percolating in the back of my mind that would eventually turn into...

Jen Ferguson's debut YA, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, released on my birthday and if that's not a sign of the publishing overlords...

Photo by Tom Hermans on Unsplash There are two types of people in the world: those to whom 36 books in four months is an obscenely large...

Earlier this year, I had the incredible joy of reading Emiko Jean's YA romance Tokyo Ever After, an utterly delightful story about Izumi,...

I'm so excited to be sharing this author Q&A with you today! Katie and Kevin Tsang are the authors of the Dragon Realm middle-grade...

Lillie Lainoff released her debut, One For All, earlier this month. The YA novel is about a young disabled French girl, Tania de Batz,...

Okay, switching things up a smidge today — Lat from Latitude's Library tagged me in this super-fun tag/meme, and I have always always...

There's a fairytale within the pages of Steven Salvatore's recent YA release And They Lived..., and I'm not talking about the queer...

I read Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix last December and let me tell you, the ride this book took me on! It was everything...

I've never read a book like One For All before. Well, I've read books similar to it — as a kid, I read a young reader's version of The...

Dusti Bowling's latest, Across the Desert, is about 12-year-old Jolene who sets out into the Arizona desert to save the downed...

I don't know where to start with Golden Boys! There's simply too much to say — from that delightful cover to the four main characters who...

These Witches Don't Burn (affiliate link) is not just the first in a duology by Isabel Sterling — it's a queer contemporary witch story...

I've got a list of books to write at least 17 strong. They're all collected in a nice notion page with cute little sub-pages for each...

Tokyo Ever After, a YA contemporary by Emiko Jean, takes all the best parts of The Princess Diaries, shifts them to Japan, throws in a...

I read Dumplin' in 2016 and the book was so beautiful, so revolutionary to me at the time, that I wrote about my feelings on the book for...

I've been obsessed with Emma Lord' writing since she bounded onto the YA scene in 2020 with her debut Tweet Cute. I loved her second...

Last week I started my MFA program, and after six workshops on magic systems and real-life magic, it occurred to me that there's a magic...

Laura Taylor Namey, y'all. I have read two of her books so far and each of them was emotional and gorgeous in its own way. Today I need,...

In 2021, I read close to 70 books, wrote two new novel-length stories, queried twice, applied (and got into) grad school for my MFA in...