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Book Review: SELF-MADE BOYS by Anna-Marie McLemore is Triumphant

In Anna-Marie McLemore's spin on The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is Nicolás Caraveo, a trans Latine boy from Wisconsin who heads out to...

End of the Year Book Tag | 2022

Hello, and welcome to the End of the Year Book Tag! This is a tag created on YouTube by Ariel Bissett, and I thought this year and...

Dahlia Adler on her latest release, the craft of short stories, and why she writes

How to introduce a profile on Dahlia Adler? I could start by saying she's the author of one of my absolute favorite YA romances, Home...

Book Review: "The Summer of Bitter and Sweet" by Jen Ferguson

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...

Becoming a better writer by reading 36 books in one semester

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...

Blog Tour: "Tokyo Dreaming" by Emiko Jean

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

Author Q&A with Katie and Kevin Tsang (Dragon Realm series)

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 on her debut, "One For All"

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

Steven Salvatore's "And They Lived..." is queer, fairytale-like perfection

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...

"Travelers Along the Way" by Aminah Mae Safi is adventure storytelling at its finest

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...

Lillie Lainoff's debut "One For All" puts disabled girls in the spotlight and lets them shine

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...

I fell in love with Phil Stamper's "Golden Boys"

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...

"Tokyo Ever After" by Emiko Jean is a Masterful Modern Fairy Tale

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...